Teller Family History
Teller Name Meaning
German: variant of Tell 2 and 3 a topographic name. German: metonymic occupational name from Middle High German Middle Low German teller ‘plate’. North German: nickname from Middle Low German teller ‘progenitor father’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Teller Yiddish teler ‘plate’ either a metonymic occupational name for a dish maker or a nickname. Dutch: occupational name from teller a marketplace official. English (Middlesex): occupational name from Anglo-Norman French tel(i)er Middle English tel(l)er teller ‘weaver (of linen cloth)’ or alternatively perhaps from Middle English teller(e) ‘messenger; accountant’.7: Native American (Navajo): from English teller probably used as a translation of a Navajo term for a storyteller halni'. The same surname in English is also found among Pueblos where it can possibly have different meaning (see Cajero ).8: Catalan: from a derivative of Tell
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022