What does the last name Kuhlmeier mean and where does it come from?

Question:If anyone has this last name, we might be related. lol

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If anyone has this last name, we might be related. lol

Ancestry.Com shows that Kuhlmeier immigrants to the U. S. gave their place of origin as Germany or one of the old German states.

You are very wise and stating "we might be related lol." A lot of people assume everyone with their surname is somehow related back down the line.

Ancestry.Com didn't have a meaning but looking up Kuhl it is a topographic name for someone who lived by a hollow or depression or a nickname from the Middle High German kuhl(cool) meaning calm or from the old Norse kollir (helmet)

Meier can be Germanic, Dutch, Czech, Slovak and Polish for a tenant farmer, steward, overseer or village headman.

It can be Jewish from the personal name Meyer

Danish - occupational name from meiere (reaper, harvester)

I notice Rootsweb(free site) has only 127 entries in family trees for Kuhlmeier. You might pull up the site and put a name or just the surname Kuhlmeier in the World Connect Block. If you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen which will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented. Even when you see the same information over and over by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.

See the link below from The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...
has 117, from Great Britian, North America, Denmark and Germany.

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...
says it means ice farmer.

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...
has 127 entries.

15 out of 16 of your GG Grandparents were not named Kuhlmeier, unless someone married a cousin. Most of your relatives aren't named Kuhlmeier. Some may be.