last name origin 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.hough his surname is not Fowler, Henry I is included here as an example of usage of the term in relation to a name prior to the broad introduction of surnames in Europe. 1  Henry the Fowler, or Henry I of Germany (861â936), Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans.