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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kächele, Kachler or Kächler, occupational names for a potter, from Middle High German kachel ‘pot’, ‘earthenware vessel’ + the agent suffix -er (see Kachel).

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