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The summers Surname

summers Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from Summer 1.
  2. Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a nickname meaning ‘gentle’, ‘innocent’.
  3. Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish name.

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

Distribution of summers Families in the US in 1920
Number of summers families
 291-580
 98-290		 1-97
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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