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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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