Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Kändler) : occupational name for a potter or pewterer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kandel ‘pitcher’.
- German (also Kändler) : occupational name for a maker of (wooden) gutters and drainage ducts, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kanel ‘pipe’, ‘gutter’ (from Latin canalis).
- German (also Kändler) : habitational name for someone from Kändler near Chemnitz in Saxony.