Haller is used as a family name or surname in German. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Haller
No. of characters: 6
Origin: German
Meaning: Name focused in Alsace and Lorraine, and of course in Germany. Means a person originating from the cities of Halle (Saxony) and Hall (Württemberg). In German Haller, a man belonging to a saltwork. Also can be a variant of Heller (which seems to correspond to a low-value coins, or to Hell, used as a place name designating the bottom of a valley). However, the most likely solution is that the name Heller (often worn by Jews askhénazes) is itself a variant of Haller.

How popular is Haller?

Haller is common in United States.

Haller is ranked 11424 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Haller bearers increased by 4.496967 per cent in 2010 US census to 9992 since 2000, the surname slipped by 142 spots and ranked at 3568. The last name was found in around 34 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 92.61 94.8
Hispanic or Latino 2.77 1.74
Others 1.53 1.01
Black 1.22 1.39
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.15 0.51
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.71 0.54
Haller is quite popular family name mostly used in Germany while Switzerland is ahead in terms of density. Around 46902 people have been found who wears Haller as their family name. Haller is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,565 Costa Rica8
28,661 Serbia8
1,346 Bermuda6
7,031 China6
37,372 Georgia2
24,269 Peru2
5,139 Bolivia2
4,164 Vietnam2
11,224 Cameroon2
8,593 Slovenia2
5,936 Bahrain2
4,104 South Korea2
21,529 Singapore2
9,185 Hong Kong2
24,766 Scotland2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
3,478 Haiti2
165,773 Belarus1
5,916 Mozambique1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
28,746 Algeria1
2,057 Isle of Man1
537 Liechtenstein1
17,236 Ghana1
9,116 Nicaragua1
17,768 Pakistan1
25,721 Egypt1
53,505 Turkey1
801 Cape Verde1
40,340 Malaysia1
799 British Virgin Islands1
21,562 Portugal1
7,110 Bosnia1
2,715 Gabon1
5,924 Paraguay1
6,820 Angola1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
186,944 Russia50
29,383 United Arab Emirates31
9,692 Ireland27
18,889 New Zealand26
80,267 Kazakhstan24
173,579 Ukraine18
7,162 Thailand15
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
9,374 Chile99
2,637 Estonia92
10,596 Colombia87
576 Luxembourg86
9,526 Croatia78
10,531 Norway72
26,687 Belgium59
Countries with hundreds of Haller:
6,578 Argentina806
17,160 Brazil763
7,056 Mexico759
8,609 South Africa749
6,014 Canada716
2,280 Hungary556
11,260 England554
22,397 Italy448
2,896 Sweden348
13,426 Kenya314
10,086 Australia277
8,119 Romania271
1,833 Uruguay257
24,102 Poland239
6,229 Israel177
18,144 Netherlands151
20,427 Spain145
4,348 Denmark138
10,984 Venezuela125
15,816 Czech Republic110
Countries with thousands of Haller:
128 Switzerland3,349
192 Austria3,012
3,446 France2,265
25,195 India1,536
Countries with ten thousands of Haller:
386 Germany15,803
3,294 United States12,197
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Catherine Haller worked as spinster and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 20 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Forest Queen and arrived on October 28, 1850. William Haller (24) Immigrant, are others that migrated to US.

From Italy

Druggist Baptist Haller from Italy aboard the Saxonia from Hamburg & Southampton. He is registered to be 29 years old when he arrived in USA on November 20, 1861.

Comments

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Pinkie Leaton
 Haller is a surname alsacien- Lorraine, ethnic derivative market, designating the original hall, name of locality, which means Germany Saxony.

Haller Namesakes

  • Albrecht von Haller, Anatomist
  • Albin Haller, Chemist
  • Albrecht von Haller, Anatomist
  • Andi Haller, Film Score Composer
  • Hermann Haller, Film Editor
  • Aurian Haller, Author
  • Albrecht von Haller, Anatomist
  • Shani Haller, Film producer
  • Dieter Hallervorden, Comedian
  • Dieter Hallervorden, Comedian
  • In 2011, Harald Haller portrayed the role of N in comedy movie 1810 - Für eine Handvoll Kaspressknödl.

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