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bowler Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): from Middle English boller (from Old English bolla ‘bowl’, ‘drinking vessel’ + the agent suffix -er), an occupational name for a maker or seller of bowls. Medieval bowls were made of wood as well as of earthenware.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bowler Families in the US in 1920
Number of bowler families
 67-131
 23-66		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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