Kepler

KEP-luhr

German surname

"hooded cloak"

Kepler Origin and Meaning

The name Kepler is a boy's name meaning "hooded cloak".

Seventeenth-century German polymath Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary notion, along with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. A handful of parents use his last name for their sons every year -- with good reason. It's a solid-feeling but unique name with a great, aspirational namesake.