Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Kilner.
- German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kellner, in any of its senses: ‘cellarman’, ‘steward’, ‘overseer’, or ‘waiter’. In this spelling it is also found as a Czech name.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from modern German Kellner or Yiddish kelner ‘waiter’.