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armstrong Name Meaning and History

  1. English (common in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders): Middle English nickname for someone who was strong in the arm.
  2. Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Labhradha Tréan ‘strong O’Lavery’ or Mac Thréinfhir, literally ‘son of the strong man’, both from Ulster.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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armstrong Family Facts

Distribution of armstrong Families in the US in 1920
Number of armstrong families
 887-1771
 296-886		 1-295
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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