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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Röthler) : occupational name for a scribe or registrar, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rodel ‘list’, ‘roll’ (Latin rotula ‘scroll’).
  • German (Röthler) : from a variant of Rödler, a pet form of the personal name Rudolf.

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