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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Czech : from a short form of the personal name Ulrich.
  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German ule ‘owl’.
  • Czech : perhaps also a nickname or metonymic occupational name from Czech uh(e)l ‘coal’.

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