Ellerbeck Family History
Ellerbeck Name Meaning
German: habitational name from any of various minor places called as the ‘stream where the alder trees grow’. English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Ellerbeck in Ingleton (Yorkshire) Ellerbek (a lost place in West Derby Hundred Lancashire) or Ellerbeck in Osmotherley (North Yorkshire) all from Old Norse elri ‘alder tree’ + bekkr ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022