Heller Family History
Heller Name Meaning
German: nickname from the small medieval coin known as the
häller or heller because it was first minted (in
1208) at the Swabian town of (Schwäbisch) Hall. Compare
Hall.Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone
from Schwäbisch Hall.German: topographic name for
someone living by a field named as ‘hell’ (see Helle 3).English: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from
southeastern Middle English hell + the habitational suffix
-er.Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed
of the elements hild ‘strife’ + hari, heri
‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with
fair hair or a light complexion, from an inflected form, used before a
male personal name, of German hell ‘light’, ‘bright’, Yiddish
hel.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Heller
Name Distribution of Heller Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heller families
 48 - 94  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heller families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heller census records
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Heller Family Origin
Heller Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Heller Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Heller census records
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Military Service by Heller
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