Tyler surname meaning

Tyler is an English occupational surname for a tiler, someone who made or laid tiles. In medieval usage the work could involve roof tiles, floor tiles, or the related preparation and fitting of them. The word entered English through Anglo-Norman and Old French trade vocabulary, then settled into several spellings, including Tiler and Tylor. It is not primarily a statement about a family living in a place called Tyler. Occupation is the high-confidence catalog type because the trade word supplies the surname directly, although an individual family’s exact branch remains a genealogical question.