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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish kotler ‘kettlemaker’, ‘boilermaker’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kot(t)ler, Köttler, or the variant Kattler (see Kottler).

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