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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Kitzmüller, literally ‘kid miller’ (see Kitz + Muller), a nickname for a miller who kept goats; alternatively, the first element may be from a personal name formed with the Germanic element Gid-, cognate with Old English gidd ‘song’.

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