Sommerfeld Family History
- Sommerfeld Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from any of several places so named. German: topographic name from fields so named because they were cultivated only in the summer, from Middle High German sumer, Middle Low German somer ‘summer’ + Middle High German, Middle Low German velt ‘open country’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German Sommer ‘summer’ + Feld ‘field’. Compare Sommer. English: variant of Summerfield.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 82,124 Historical Documents with Sommerfeld on Ancestry
- 46,428 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,313 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,019 Military Records
- 3,917 Immigration Records
- 16,447 Member Trees
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Number of Sommerfeld families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sommerfeld census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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