English : habitational name from a place so named in West
Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Chichelai, apparently
named with an Old English personal name Cyhha + Old English
lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized spelling of
German Kiechle (see Kuechle) or Kiechler (see
Kuechler).
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