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cutler Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a maker of knives, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French co(u)tel, co(u)teau ‘knife’, Late Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘plowshare’. Compare Cottle.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Kottler or Kattler, which is of uncertain origin. .

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Distribution of cutler Families in the US in 1920
Number of cutler families
 166-330
 56-165
 1-55
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