Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Hill, from southeastern Middle English hell ‘hill’, a dialect form characteristic of Kent and Sussex.
- English : from a personal name, Helle, which may have been a variant of Elie (a Middle English form of Elias), or perhaps a short form of a personal name formed with Hild- as the first element (see Hilliard for example), or perhaps from the female personal name Helen.
- German : nickname from Middle High German hell ‘bright’, ‘shining’.
- German : variant of Helle 3.