Schuyler.
An American surname from Dutch [in turn originating as an occupation].
Meaning & usage
An American surname from Dutch [in turn originating as an occupation].
A unisex given name transferred from the surname [in turn from Dutch], of 19th century and later usage.
A city, the county seat of Colfax County, Nebraska, United States.
Where this word comes from
A Dutch surname (cf. scholier) from German Schüler (“scholar, student”); brought to America by seventeenth-century Dutch immigrants. Doublet of scholar and schooler.
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