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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Kreisler or Griessler, a topographic name for someone who lived or farmed in an area of sand (see Gries), or (in the south) an occupational name for a grocer, from Middle High German griezmel ‘milled grain’ (from griez ‘sand’, ‘gravel’).

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