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The dressler Surname

dressler Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a turner, from Middle High German dreseler or dræselære (formed by the addition of a superfluous agent suffix to Old High German drasil ‘turner’, a primary derivative of draen ‘turn’, ‘spin’). A turner would make small objects not just from wood, but also from bone, ivory, and amber, all of which were widely used in the Middle Ages for their decorative value.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the dressler family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of dressler Families in the US in 1920
Number of dressler families
 60-118
 21-59		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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