First name origins & meanings:
- Irish: Chapel
- English: Peaceful
- Dutch: Archer
- Irish: The narrows; a wood; a church
First name variations: Kieler, Kiler, Kye, Kylor, Kyler Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: probably a variant of Koole, from a short form of the
personal name Nikolaas (see Nicholas). This is a common
Dutch name in the Albany area. A variant form of the surname in the
Netherlands is Kuilart, suggesting perhaps that these could be
occupational names for a potato grower, from kuilen ‘to plant
potatoes’ (from kuil ‘pit’, ‘hole’).
- The Cuyler family were one of five prominent political families in
Albany, NY, by the 1730s. Philip and Cornelius Cuyler provisioned
militiamen during the French and Indian War.
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