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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill, from Middle English hull ‘hill’, a dialect form characteristic of southwestern England and the West Midlands. Compare Hiller.
  • German (Hüller) : occupational name for a tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hülle, hulle ‘cloak’.

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