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husband Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a peasant farmer, from Middle English husband ‘tiller of the soil’, ‘husbandman’. The term (late Old English husbonda, Old Norse húsbóndi), a compound of hús ‘house’ + bóndi (see Bond) originally described a man who was head of his own household, and this may have been the sense in some of the earliest examples of the surname.

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

Distribution of husband Families in the US in 1920
Number of husband families
 24-46
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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