# Haller

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #46,503

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
* As an English and German surname, from hall + -er.
* As a Alemannic German surname, variant of Halter, a noun meaning "shepherd, owner, holder."
* Also as a German surname, variant of Heller.
* As a Austrian German surname, from several placenames involving the element Hall meaning "salt," such as Halle in Saxony.

## Easily confused with
- **halls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-halls)
- **hater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hater)
- **hallo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hallo)
- **halve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-halve)
- **Hamer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hamer)
- **harder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-harder)
- **holder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-holder)
- **hammer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hammer)
- **Hitler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hitler)
- **harper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-harper)
- **Harley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-harley)
- **hamlet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hamlet)
- **Harlem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-harlem)
- **halted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-halted)
- **halves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-halves)
- **helper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-helper)
- **Hayley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hayley)
- **healer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-healer)
- **heller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-heller)
- **hamper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haller-vs-hamper)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ahller`, `halelr`, `haler`, `hallerr`, `hallre`, `hhaller`, `hlaler`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/haller