Family name origins & meanings
- German (Hösler) : occupational name for a maker of hose (garments for the legs), from Middle High German hose (see Hose 3) + the agent suffix -r.
- German (Hösler) : habitational name for someone from Hösel near Düsseldorf.
- English : occupational name for a fowler, a variant of Osler, or for an innkeeper, a reduced form of Ostler. In both cases, the initial H- is inorganic.