Callier Family History
Callier Name Meaning
French: from an Old French term denoting earthenware and by extension a particular type of earthenware vessel from which new wine was drunk hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such crocks. French: from caielier an occupational name for a chair maker from an agent derivative of caiel ‘chair’. English (Staffordshire): probably a variant of the occupational name Collier ‘charcoal burner’ though in some cases perhaps a variant of Caller from a Middle English side-form callier with substitution of the suffix -ier for -er. In Kent and Somerset Caller is chiefly a variant of the nickname or habitational name Callow . Elsewhere it may derive either from Middle English caller ‘maker of cauls’ (baskets nets women's close-fitting caps or headdresses for covering tied up hair) from Middle English calle ‘basket net’ (Old English cawl) or from a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a sheep pen or pigsty (Middle English calle) synonymous with atte Calle. See Call .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
