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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Pöhler) : topographic name for someone living by a muddy pool, or habitational name for someone from Pohla near Bautzen (see Pohl, Pohle).
  • North German (Pöhler) : from a reduced and altered pet form of a personal name formed with Old High German bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.

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