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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a girdle maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English gurdel ‘girdle’ (Old English gyrdel).
  • Probably also an Americanized spelling of North German Gördeler, a variant of Gürtler (see Gurtler).

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