Family name origins & meanings
- German (Kübler) : occupational name for a cooper, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kübel ‘tub’, ‘vat’, ‘barrel’. Alternatively, but less likely, it may be a derivative of the Franconian dialect word Kobel ‘hut’, ‘dovecote’, here denoting a farm laborer’s cottage, and hence a name for a cotter (a peasant occupying a tied cottage belonging to a farm).