Family name origins & meanings
- German and Czech : from a short form of the personal name Ulrich.
- North German : nickname from Middle Low German ule ‘owl’.
- Czech : perhaps also a nickname or metonymic occupational name from Czech uh(e)l ‘coal’.
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