origin of last name fowler
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 name Fowler comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'Fugal, meaning fowl. It is of Anglo-Norman origin, however most of the Fowlers in America are of English descent. Henry the Fowler became King Henry I of Saxony in 919.