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The heller Surname

heller Name Meaning and History

  1. German: nickname from the small medieval coin known as the häller or heller because it was first minted (in 1208) at the Swabian town of (Schwäbisch) Hall. Compare Hall.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Schwäbisch Hall.
  3. German: topographic name for someone living by a field named as ‘hell’ (see Helle 3).
  4. English: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from southeastern Middle English hell + the habitational suffix -er.
  5. Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hild ‘strife’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  6. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with fair hair or a light complexion, from an inflected form, used before a male personal name, of German hell ‘light’, ‘bright’, Yiddish hel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of heller Families in the US in 1920
Number of heller families
 456-910
 153-455		 1-152
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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