The ellender Surname
ellender Name Meaning and History
- English: variant of Allender.
- Respelling of German Elender, a nickname for a stranger or newcomer, from Middle High German ellende ‘strange’, ‘foreign’, or a habitational name for someone from any of twenty places named Elend, denoting a remote settlement, as for example in the Harz Mountains or in Carinthia, Austria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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