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.
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