Schuyler

//ˈskaɪ.lɚ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An American surname from Dutch.
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
  3. 3
    A female given name.
  4. 4
    A city, the county seat of Colfax County, Nebraska, United States.

Etymology

Dutch surname "scholar, student", from German Schüler; brought to America by seventeenth-century Dutch immigrants.

Related phrases

Schuyler Countycolfax countycounty seat

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