Fun Facts About the Name Weller
- 209 babies named Weller: U.S. records list 209 babies given the name Weller from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Weller Mean?
Weller is an English family name meaning roughly "one who works at wells," a digger or tender of wells, and in another reading of the same root a boiler of brine for salt. It comes from Middle English wellere, an agent noun from the verb wellen ("to spring up, bubble, boil"), which descends from Old English wiellan. Because the same word could describe a spring or stream, the surname served both as an occupational name for a well-digger or salt-boiler and as a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring.
A separate German surname Weller has an unrelated origin, from a Middle High German term for a plasterer or a worker in clay or daub. The two names look alike but are not connected. The given name discussed here follows the English surname.
Weller Name History & Origins
Weller appears as a surname in medieval England, where it began as a byname taken from the work of digging or tending wells, or from boiling brine. Over the centuries the spelling settled into forms such as Weller, and the name traveled with English-speaking settlers to North America and other regions.
Its use as a first name is uncommon and fits the wider English custom of converting surnames into given names. The best-known bearer is fictional: Sam Weller, the Cockney servant in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1836 - 37). Dickens did not invent the surname, which was already long established; the novel chiefly made the name familiar to a broad readership.
How Popular is the Name Weller?
Weller has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #2,419 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,419 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 2024 | #3,090 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2023 | #3,868 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2022 | #3,270 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2021 | #6,318 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2020 | #7,468 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #8,171 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #7,584 | 11 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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