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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly an occupational name for a porter or carrier, from an agent derivative of Middle English hailen ‘to haul’, ‘to drag’, from Old French haler ‘to pull’.
  • Slovenian : variant spelling of German Haller.

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