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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Bosselmann) : habitational name from Bossel near Hagen, Westphalia.
  • North German (Bosselmann) : nickname for someone with bristly hair, from Middle Dutch borstel ‘brush’ (see Borstel).

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