what is a fowler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For uses of Fowler other as a surname, see Fowler (disambiguation) . Fowler is an English and/or Scots surname with a linguistic origin in the Old English fugelere, indicative of a person occupied as a bird-catcher.he early traces of the name of Fowler date from the time when savage invaders from the northern areas of Europe altered the history and the map of Europe by their invasions and raids of what is now France and England. The name Fowler comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'Fugal, meaning fowl.