The callender Surname
callender Name Meaning and History
- English: occupational name for a person who finished freshly woven cloth by passing it between heavy rollers to compress the weave. The English term for such a worker, calender, is from Old French calandrier, calandreur, from the verb calandrer.
- Scottish: variant spelling of Callander.
- Variant spelling of German Kalander (see Kolander).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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