The hiller Surname
hiller Name Meaning and History
- Southern English: topographic name for someone living by a hill. See Hill 1.
- German: metronymic from Hille, a pet form of the female personal name Hildegund (see Hilke).
- North German, Frisian, and Dutch: from a masculine personal beginning with the Germanic element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
- German: variant of Hüller (see Huller).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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