Bühler
A German surname meaning someone from a place called Bühle, Bühlen, or a similar hilltop or slope settlement.
The #5,494 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 48,752 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Bühler is a German habitational surname. It typically refers to a person from a place named Bühle, Bühlen, or another locality built on the element Bühl, meaning a hill, slope, or hillock in regional German usage. In some cases it may also be connected with place-names formed from this same topographic word, so the surname usually points to residence near or origin from a raised landscape feature.
History
The name is most strongly associated with German-speaking areas, especially southern Germany and Switzerland, where many surnames were formed from farm, village, or landscape names. The spelling Buehler is a common Anglicized rendering of Bühler, replacing ü with ue in German orthography. Bearers of the name often appear in records of German immigration to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Fun fact
The spelling with ue is not a different name so much as a practical substitute for the German letter ü when umlauts are omitted.