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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kühler) : topographic name for someone living by a quarry, from a derivative of Middle High German kūle, Middle Low German kule ‘quarry’, ‘pit’.
  • German (Kühler) : derivative of an old personal name formed with a German cognate of Old Norse kollir ‘helmet’.

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