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abner Name Meaning and History

English: from a Biblical personal name, meaning in Hebrew ‘God is (my) light’, which was popular among the Puritans, especially among early settlers in New England, but also in the southern states. In the First and Second Books of Samuel, Abner is Saul’s uncle and the commander of his army, who is eventually cut down by Joab (II Samuel 3:12–39).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the abner family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of abner Families in the US in 1920
Number of abner families
 66-130
 23-65		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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