Baessler
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Baessler
Frequency: (118)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. habitational name for someone from Basel in Switzerland (see Besler), or from any of various places called Basse or Bassen in northern Germany. 2. Alternatively, perhaps from a derivative of Middle Low German baseln ‘to act in a confused manner’, hence a nickname for someone who was absent-minded or forgetful.
GIVEN NAMES: German 12%. Gottfried, Kurt, Urs, Volker.
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