The Eichner Family Name

Genealogists group Eichner with Eichler. In origin, the name means “Oak dweller”.

A variant of Eichler

Eichner writes “n” in place of the “l” found in Eichler, a common scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Eicher, Eicheler and Eichel.

Eichner by the numbers

According to the 2010 US Census, the Eichner surname had 1,644 bearers. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Eichler and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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