Gander Family History
- Gander Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English gander, Old English gand(r)a ‘gander’, ‘male goose’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of geese, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a gander in some way. English: variant of Ganter. North German: perhaps a habitational name from Gandern in Brandenburg. North German: nickname for a vain or self-important man from ganter ‘male goose’, ‘gander’. South German and Swiss German: habitational name from a place named with Middle High German gant ‘scree’ (Swiss gand), or topographic name for someone living by an area of scree.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 162,188 Historical Documents with Gander on Ancestry
- 43,969 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,970 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,554 Military Records
- 2,991 Immigration Records
- 77,704 Member Trees
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Number of Gander families
 280 - 558  94 - 279 |
 1 - 93  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gander families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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