Templer — Family Name, Records and Arms

Spelled Templer, the surname still points back to Temple. Its meaning, shared with Temple, is “Of the Templars' land”. Before spelling was fixed, Temple was also written Templer. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Templeman.

506 Americans were listed as Templer in the 2010 census.

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