Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Jülich. In Switzerland Bossler means ‘ruffian’ (from Middle High German bôssen ‘to hit’; compare Bosshart), and in some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname from this sense.
  • Swabian (Bösler) : nickname for a sickly person, from Swabian Bösele ‘ulcer’, ‘boil’, ‘abscess’.