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The derry Surname

derry Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Deary, or alternatively a nickname for a merchant or tradesman, from Anglo-French darree ‘pennyworth’, from Old French denree.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doiridh, the name of an eccesiastical family from Donegal, meaning ‘descendant of Doireadh’. Derry is often confused with Deery.

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

Distribution of derry Families in the US in 1920
Number of derry families
 59-115
 20-58		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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