Puller Family History
Puller Name Meaning
Scottish and English: nickname from Middle English pullen ‘to pluck shear skin’ + har(r)e ‘hare’ probably for one who skinned hares but perhaps with some other colloquial and pejorative sense. Scottish and English: variant of Pillar . German: nickname for a knight who had traveled to Apulia (Italian Puglia). The Pullers were vassals of the Hohenstaufens in the 13th–15th centuries; between 1262 and 1482 their stronghold was the castle of Hohenbourg in Alsace. Americanized form of German Pfüller Pfuller a variant of Pfuhl .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022