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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker of knives, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French co(u)tel, co(u)teau ‘knife’, Late Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘plowshare’. Compare Cottle.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kottler or Kattler, which is of uncertain origin.

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