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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : variant of the occupational name Kohler.
  • South German : from Middle High German kolli(e)r ‘leather harness’, ‘horse collar’, ‘neck piece of garment of armor’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a harness maker or armorer.
  • German (Köller) : Westphalian habitational name for someone from Cologne (German Köln); Kölle is the Rhenish dialect form of the place name.

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