Wellner Family History
Wellner Name Meaning
South German: occupational name for someone who prepared wool for spinning from Middle High German wœllener woller. Compare Wollschlager . German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Wellen (Lower Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate). German: variant of Welle
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press