Teller is an English and German occupational surname: in English it meant "one who counts", the clerk who tallied money, and in German it was a maker or seller of plates. As a first name it is new and follows the trend of crisp surname names such as Tucker and Walker. In the United States Teller stayed above number 5000 for most of the 2010s, then jumped from number 3514 in 2024 to number 2106 among boys' names in 2025, its best rank yet.