Speller Family History
Speller Name Meaning
English and South German: occupational name for a reciter, from
an agent derivative of Middle English spell(en), Middle High
German spellen ‘to tell or relate’. In the case of the English
surname there has probably been some confusion with
Spiller.German: habitational name for someone from
Spelle near Rheine.Variant of Spiller 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Speller Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Speller families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Speller families
|
184 - 366 62 - 183 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Speller last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Speller Family Origin
Speller Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Speller
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Speller Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Speller census records
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