Callier Family History

French: from an Old French term denoting earthenware and by extension a particular type of earthenware vessel from which new wine was drunk, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such crocks. French: from caielier, an occupational name for a chair maker from an agent derivative of caiel ‘chair’.

English (Staffordshire): probably a variant of the occupational name Collier ‘charcoal burner’, though in some cases perhaps a variant of Caller from a Middle English side-form callier with substitution of the suffix -ier for -er.

In Kent and Somerset, Caller is chiefly a variant of the nickname or habitational name Callow. Elsewhere it may derive either from Middle English caller ‘maker of cauls’ (baskets, nets, women's close-fitting caps or headdresses for covering tied up hair) from Middle English calle ‘basket, net’ (Old English cawl).

Additionally, it may come from a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a sheep pen or pigsty (Middle English calle), synonymous with atte Calle. See Call.