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The eller Surname

eller Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: topographic name for someone who lived by an alder tree, from Middle Low German elre, alre ‘alder’.
  2. German: habitational name from places in the North Rhine and Mosel areas, so called from an old stream name Elera, Alira, of Celtic origin.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Heller, reflecting varieties of Yiddish in which there is no h.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The eller name in History

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Distribution of eller Families in the US in 1920
Number of eller families
 138-273
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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