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- Better Name Meaning
- Translation of French Lemieux. English: nickname from Old English betere ‘fighter’, ‘beater’. Reaney suggests it may also be a short form of the various occupational names ending with -better, for example Leadbetter. German (Bavarian): metonymic occupational name for a maker of rosaries, from Bavarian better ‘rosary’ (from beten ‘to pray’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Better families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Better families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Better census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Better census records
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