Eliser meaning | Last name Eliser origin

A variant form of the Els. See Elias - Elias or Helyas was a very common Anglo-Norman baptismal name, and became the parent of the surnames Ellis, Ellison, and perhaps of Elliot, Elliotson, Els or Ells, Elson, Elley, Ellet, and Lelliot.

Eliser is the variation of Ellis. In the whole range of family nomenclature there is perhaps no name which admits of more variety of origin, or a greater number of differing forms. "Elles or Ellis in British," says Hals, in D. Gilbert's Cornwall, "is a son-in law by the wife, and Els or Ells, a son - in law by the husband." Ella or Ælla is a well known regal name of Anglo-Saxon times, and its genitive form would in later days become Ellis. From these two sources some of our very numerous families may have sprung, but there is little doubt that the surname Ellis has for the most part been formed from the scripture name Elias, which does not occur as an Anglo-Saxon name, but which was in use in France as early as the days of Charlemagne, as a baptismal designation, and afterwards gave name to several families of Elie. Elias, though uncommon now as a Christian name, was not so in the early Norman reigns, and indeed it had become hereditary at the time of the Norman Conquest, in the form of Alis. William Alis, mentioned in Domesday and by Orderious Vitalis, was progenitor of the Ellises of Kiddal, county of York, and Stoneacre, county of Kent, from whom sprang Sir Archibald Ellys, a crusader temp. Richard I., who is said to have originated the cross and crescents so common to the Ellis coat- armour. Ellis in later times, both in Wales and England, became a common personal name, and consequently there are in both countries many families of distinct origin. See ‘Notices of the Ellises,' London 1857.

and Peds. of Ellis and Fitz -Ellis in “Topographer and Ge nealogist,' vol. iii. The principal forms of this name in the H.R. are Eleys, Elice, Elies, Elis, Elys; and other proven variations are Alis, Halis, Elias, Helias, Ellys, Elles, Hellis, Hellys, Hilles,Helles, Hollys, Holys, Holles, Iles, Ilys, Eyles, and Eales. Of course several of these forms are etymologically traceable to other and very different sources. Ellison, Alison, and Fitz-Ellis are also well-known surnames.

Family name Eliser is the form of Ellis. Elias, son-in-law.

Family name is the variation of Else. Dweller at, or near, the alder tree; one who came from Elsen, i.e., alder, in Germany.

Eliser is the form of Ellis. Descendant of Ellis meaning "God is salvation".

Surname is a form of Ellis. Elias, son-in-law.

The Eliser is the variation of the Hell. Of the Hollow, low or deep place.