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Updated June 9, 2019

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).

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