English: variant of Box, with the addition of the agent
suffix -er.Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): from an
Americanized spelling of Yiddish bokser ‘St. John’s bread’,
presumably an ornamental name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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