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fern Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was an abundance of ferns, from Old English fearn ‘fern’ (sometimes used as a collective noun).

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

Distribution of fern Families in the US in 1920
Number of fern families
 25-48
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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