The eller Surname
eller Name Meaning and History
- North German: topographic name for someone who lived by an alder tree, from Middle Low German elre, alre ‘alder’.
- German: habitational name from places in the North Rhine and Mosel areas, so called from an old stream name Elera, Alira, of Celtic origin.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Heller, reflecting varieties of Yiddish in which there is no h.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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