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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Kent named Boxley, from Old English box ‘box (tree)’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, or some other place similarly named.
  • Americanized form of Swiss German Boxler.

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