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The mead Surname

mead Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English m?d).
  2. metonymic occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead (Old English meodu), an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.

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

Distribution of mead Families in the US in 1920
Number of mead families
 531-1060
 178-530		 1-177
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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