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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Timmler, a variant of Thümmler, from either tumel ‘loud noise’ or an agent derivative Middle High German tumelen ‘to lark about’, as a nickname for a restless, lively person; or alternatively from Middle Low German tumeler ‘tightrope walker’, ‘tumbler’.

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