Word Origin & History. valid 1570s, having force in law, legally binding, from M.Fr. valide, from L. validus strong, effective, from valere be strong (see valiant). The meaning supported by facts or authority is first recorded 1640s.
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.
This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is from an occupational name for a bird-catcher or hunter of wild birds. In the medieval period a fowler would have been an important position, and all major houses would have employed one.The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century fugelere, hunter of wild birds. Job-descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary.he name reached the New World in the early 17th Century, when it is recorded that one George Fowler, aged 22 yrs., sailed aboard the Primrose in July 1635, bound for Virginia.