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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Kilner.
  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kellner, in any of its senses: ‘cellarman’, ‘steward’, ‘overseer’, or ‘waiter’. In this spelling it is also found as a Czech name.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from modern German Kellner or Yiddish kelner ‘waiter’.

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