Weller is an English surname that described someone who lived "by a spring" or well, or a worker who boiled brine to make salt. As a first name it is brand new, part of the fashion for rugged surname names like Walker and Wilder, and it also calls to mind the Kentucky bourbon of the same name. Weller first appeared in the statistics in 2018 at number 7589 and has reached number 2419 in 2025.