American Family Name Origins:
Fassler |
Frequency: (378)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (also Fässler): occupational name for a cooper, from Middle High German vaz, vezzel ‘keg’ (a diminutive of vaz ‘barrel’) + the agent suffix -er.
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