Piller Family History
Piller Name Meaning
English: variant of Pillar . German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Bilihar composed of the elements bil ‘sword’ + hari ‘army’. German: southern variant of Biller 1 Alternatively a habitational name for someone from a place called Pill in Austria. French: diminutive of Pile 2‘mortar trough’ or its variant Pille . French: topographic name from Old French piler ‘pillar column’ (from Latin pila); compare Pile Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name from German Pille Yiddish pil ‘pill tablet’ + the suffix -er. In Austrian Galicia it could also be a surname randomly assigned by Austrian clerks.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022