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basler Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name for someone from the city of Basel in Switzerland.
  2. from an agent derivative of Middle Low German baseln ‘to behave in a confused manner’, hence a nickname for a scatterbrained person.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The basler name in History

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Distribution of basler Families in the US in 1920
Number of basler families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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