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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Bosley, from the Old English personal name Bōsa or Bōt + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
  • Americanized spelling of French Beausoleil, especially in New England.
  • Altered spelling of German Bosler.

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