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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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