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Kummer Surname Meaning

German and Swiss German: from Middle Low German kummer Middle High German kumber kummer ‘grief, distress, trouble; rubble, building debris’ in Middle Low German also ‘arrest, prison’ hence a nickname for someone who had suffered some loss or other misfortune; alternatively, a topographic or an occupational name for a person living near or working at a (stone) rubble heap.

In some cases in northern Germany for a person in charge of legal actions such as seizures and arrests. German and Swiss German: possibly also a derivative of the medieval personal name Kunemar, of which the first element is from Old High German kuoni ‘bold’ or chunni ‘people’ (see Konrad); the second is from Old High German māri ‘fame, glory’.

Germanized form of Sorbian Komor and Komar: from Upper Sorbian komor, Lower Sorbian komar ‘gnat, mosquito’ (see Kommer). In some cases also a Germanized form of Slovenian Kumer.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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You can see how Kummer families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Kummer family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Kummer families were found in USA in 1880. In 1891 there were 8 Kummer families living in London. This was about 62% of all the recorded Kummer's in United Kingdom. London had the highest population of Kummer families in 1891.

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Between 1952 and 2004, in the United States, Kummer life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1960, and highest in 1997. The average life expectancy for Kummer in 1952 was 60, and 75 in 2004.

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