Last name: WALLER

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WALLER : This last name is indexed 233,074 times on Geneanet!

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WALLER : 1: English: occupational name from Middle English waler waliere walour waller ‘builder of walls mason’.2: English: in Sussex perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall.3: English: topographic name for someone who lived by a spring stream or man-made well from Middle English waller a derivative of Middle English walle Old English wælle wælle. It is a West Midlands dialect form of Weller.4: South German: nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘traveler roamer pilgrim’.5: Swedish (rarely Wallér): topographic or ornamental name composed of a variant of the element vall ‘grassy bank pasture’ (see Wall) + the suffix -er (from German) or -ér (a derivative of Latin -erius).

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