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The weller Surname

weller Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, an agent derivative of Well.
  2. North German: variant of Welle, cognate with 1.
  3. German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German wëllen ‘to roll, revolve, or smear’, hence an occupational name for someone who made wattle and daub walls.
  4. German: from Middle High German wëllen ‘to cause to boil or simmer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a smelter, cook, or the like.
  5. German: from Middle High German wëlle ‘roll’, ‘bale’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold cloth or wool, for example.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of weller Families in the US in 1920
Number of weller families
 246-490
 83-245		 1-82
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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