Sellers surname meaning

Sellers is an English surname concentrated historically in Lancashire and Yorkshire, treated as Seller with a later excrescent -s. Seller itself has several related occupational senses: Middle English seller from Old French seller, “saddler”; an agent noun from sellen, “to sell,” for a trader; or a shortened form of cellarer, the officer who stored provisions in a monastery or great household. Sellars and Sellors are variants. All of the primary dictionary senses are job-titles, so occupation is the catalog type with high confidence even when the exact medieval trade is unknown for a given line.