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The bonner Surname

bonner Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Scottish, and Irish: nickname from Middle English boner(e), bonour ‘gentle’, ‘courteous’, ‘handsome’ (Old French bonnaire, from the phrase de bon(ne) aire ‘of good bearing or appearance’, from which also comes modern English debonair).
  2. Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Ynyr ‘son of Ynyr’, a common medieval personal name derived from Latin Honorius.
  3. Swedish: unexplained.

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

Distribution of bonner Families in the US in 1920
Number of bonner families
 208-413
 70-207		 1-69
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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