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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (southern and central) : topographic name from Middle High German hasel, hesel ‘hazel’, or a habitational name from places called Hesslar, Hessler, or Hässler in Thuringia, Franconia, Westphalia, and Hesse.

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