Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish tesler ‘carpenter’. Compare Tesler.
- German : variant of Teschner.
- English : from an agent derivative of Old English tǣsel ‘teasel’, hence an occupational name for someone whose job was to brush the surface of newly-woven cloth or to card wood preparatory to spinning, using the dry seed-heads of teasels (a kind of thistle).