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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: occupational name from Old French telier ‘weaver’, ‘linen-weaver’.
  2. German: variant of Tell 2 and 3.
  3. Dutch: occupational name for a teller, a marketplace official.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): either a metonymic occupational name for a dish maker or a nickname, from German Teller, Yiddish teler ‘plate’.
  5. Catalan: from a derivative of Tell 4.
  6. This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.

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