The koller Surname
koller Name Meaning and History
- South German: variant of the occupational name Kohler.
- South German: from Middle High German kolli(e)r ‘leather harness’, ‘horse collar’, ‘neck piece of garment of armor’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a harness maker or armorer.
- German (Köller): Westphalian habitational name for someone from Cologne (German Köln); Kölle is the Rhenish dialect form of the place name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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