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binder Name Meaning and History

  1. one of the many occupational names for a cooper or barrel maker, German (Fass)binder, an agent derivative of binden ‘to bind’. Less often the same word was used to denote a bookbinder. The surname is found principally in southern Germany and Switzerland, but also in Denmark and Slovenia. Compare Boettcher, Buettner, and Schaeffler.
  2. German: variant of Bunde 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of binder Families in the US in 1920
Number of binder families
 122-241
 41-121		 1-40
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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