Waller Family History
Waller Name Meaning
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).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).English: occupational
name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an
agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to
boil’.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).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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Name Distribution of Waller Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waller families
 160 - 317  54 - 159 |
 1 - 53  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Waller families
|
809 - 1,616 270 - 808 |
1 - 269 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waller families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Waller Family Origin
Waller Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Waller
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Waller Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Waller census records
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