Heller Family History
Heller Name Meaning
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 . German: topographic name for someone living by a field named with a word meaning ‘hell’ (see Helle ). Dutch: variant of Helder . English: variant of Hillier . English: in some cases a topographic name from Middle English heller ‘dweller on the hill’ a term that belongs to southern England especially Surrey Kent Sussex and Hampshire. See Hiller and Huller . Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Schwäbisch Hall.7: 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022