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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Köttler, itself a variant of Kötter (see Koetter).
  • North German : occupational name for a butcher, from Middle Low German koteler ‘preparer of entrails’ (compare Kuttler).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kotler.

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