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waller Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone living near a wall (in particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason who built walls (see Wall).
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).
  3. English: occupational name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to boil’.
  4. English: nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).
  5. South German: nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of waller Families in the US in 1920
Number of waller families
 160-317
 54-159		 1-53
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 865 - Messages: 2110
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William J. Waller and Narcissa Grainger jennings_grainger 5
WALLER, G. W. jeantwin11 23
Job Waller Hilda Waller Tunison 23
George Waller/Louisa harriett buckley mikemorrison70 0
NEED WALLER INFO ON SPOTSYLVANIA WALLERS stillwarter 0
The Wallers-Euclid waller??? janay loyd 0
Need to know if any of this fits sharonmc211 0
Wallers from Tennessee and Mississippi janay loyd 4
looking for any family members Sharon K. Waller McKinney 14
Sam Waller sharonmc211 1
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