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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Girdler.
  • German (Gürtler) : occupational name for a maker of straps and belts, from Middle High German gurtel ‘belt’ (specifically a leather belt with brass fittings, from which a purse would be hung).

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