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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