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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bavaria and Austria) from the personal name Giselher (see Gieseler).
  • altered spelling of Swiss Geissler, an occupational name for a goatherd, from an agent derivative of from Middle High German geiz ‘goat’.

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