German: habitational name from a place so named near
Jülich. In Switzerland Bossler means ‘ruffian’ (from Middle
High German bôssen ‘to hit’; compare Bosshart), and
in some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname from this
sense.
Swabian (Bösler): nickname for a sickly person,
from Swabian Bösele ‘ulcer’, ‘boil’, ‘abscess’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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