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The adler Surname

adler Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Adler ‘eagle’, denoting someone living in a house identified by the sign of an eagle. The German noun is from Middle High German adelar, itself a compound of adel ‘noble’ + ar ‘eagle’. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, being found for example in Czech, Polish, Slovenian, and Hungarian (Ádler).
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name meaning ‘eagle’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of adler Families in the US in 1920
Number of adler families
 464-926
 155-463		 1-154
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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