Homer Family History
- Homer Name Meaning
- English (West Midlands): occupational name for a maker of helmets, from the adopted Old French term he(a)umier, from he(a)ume ‘helmet’, of Germanic origin. Compare Helm 2. English: variant of Holmer. Americanized form of the Greek family name Homiros or one of its patronymic derivatives (Homirou, Homiridis, etc.). This was not only the name of the ancient Greek epic poet (classical Greek Homeros), but was also borne by a martyr venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church. Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, from hom (dialect form of holm ‘hill’, ‘height’) + the German suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 478,383 Historical Documents with Homer on Ancestry
- 170,227 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 133,578 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,192 Military Records
- 10,461 Immigration Records
- 147,925 Member Trees
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Number of Homer families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Homer 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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