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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an agent derivative of the obsolete verb kindeln ‘to beget children’, hence a nickname for someone who had a lot of children.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Kind ‘child’ + the agent suffix -ler, most likely an occupational name for a schoolteacher.

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