Waller

in the US

There are 29,750 people with the last name "Waller" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Waller 873
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  1. is 869th most common Burch
  2. is 870th most common Hays
  3. is 871st most common Irwin
  4. is 872nd most common Whitney
  5. is 873rd most common Waller
  6. is 874th most common Good
  7. is 875th most common Moyer
  8. is 876th most common Spence
  9. is 877th most common Church

Similar Names and Nicknames

Wallace, Wall, Walls, Wallis, Weller, Walling, Wallen, Wallin, Walley, Wallach

Most Common First Names for Waller

James, Robert, John, William, David, Michael, Mary, Charles, Richard, Thomas



Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone living near a wall (in particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason who built walls (see Wall).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).

English: occupational name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to boil’.

English: nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).

South German: nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.

FOREBEARS Col. John Waller came from England to VA in about 1635. The name was brought to North America by several other bearers independently.


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