Please help with translation of Sweden word "Kull"

Question

On several records on one section of my research I find multiple people with the word "Kull"  before their name.  However I have not found a good definition.  Man from the hill?
 

Here is one link but I have seen in others too.

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0012646_00168

Kull above the first person on the list

here is another link and I think the Kull is in the margin on the left. https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0013463_00030

Answer 1

I'm not sure how this might relate to a census, but by checking an on-line Swedish dictionary, it appears to translate to Batch. I also found a close similar meaning listed as quantity. I however do not find that word here: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Swedish_Genealogical_Word_List Maybe someone with experience in Swedish Census Records will respond soon. 

Answer 2

A link to an actual record would be of great help.

The word "Kull", both in Swedish and Norwegian, may mean a group of persons born of the same mother and father. If one of them remarried and had children with another spouse, those children would be of a separate "kull". I don't know the corresponding word in English.

Comments

The English world would probably be "litter".

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Yes, probably, Staffan.

In the case of "Kull" as a farm name it also struck me, later, that it could  have something to do with "dalkulla" and "vallkulla".

Answer 3

It sounds like you have run across a family from Dalarna province with the farm name Kull. Farm names from Dalarna were placed first in the name, before the given name and patronymic.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Dalarna_Farm_Names

Comments

The other answers about "kull" being a batch of offspring are corrcect, but I should think that in this case it rather has something to do with "kulle"=hill.

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That's why I'd liked to see a link to the actual record. Context is such a wonderful thing :)

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Very true.

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I added a couple links - I had to find the records again.  I know I saw more but not sure of the record.

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OK, Nås and Grangärde are parishes in Dalarna and farm names were used there.

Best of luck with creating your family tree in WikiTree!

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I am going to show my ignorance for Sweden and Norway.  I hope not to offend anyone.

I have tried to look up the word "Kull" about 50 different ways.  If I translate the page I don't find the word on the page.  However I have found something about the word "Kull" and Charcoal in a Norwegian language.  Could that have applied here?

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Since it is a name it does not really need translation.