The tiller Surname
tiller Name Meaning and History
- Southern English: occupational name for a husbandman, from Middle English til(l)er, a secondary derivative of Old English tilian ‘to till or cultivate’. There has been some confusion with Tiler (see Tyler).
- South German: topographic name of unknown origin.
- North German: from a variant of Thiel.
- variant of German Tüller (see Tuller).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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