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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Kriegler, a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kriegen ‘to quarrel’, ‘to dispute’, or an occupational name for an innkeeper or potter, a variant of Krüger (see Krueger).

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