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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Irish: Chapel
  2. English: Peaceful
  3. Dutch: Archer
  4. Irish: The narrows; a wood; a church

First name variations: Kieler, Kiler, Kye, Kylor, Kyler

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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’).
  2. 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.