Eller Family History

North German: topographic name for someone who lived by an alder tree from Middle Low German elre alre ‘alder’. German: habitational name from any of the 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. English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): possibly a topographic name from Middle English eller ‘alder’ but there is no medieval evidence for the surname.

In the case of the Yorkshire name it might be a variant of Ellers with loss of -s. Alternatively, it may be a variant of Elder or Heller.