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The canary Surname

canary Name Meaning and History

  1. Variant spelling of Irish Connery.
  2. Americanized form of Jewish (from Poland) Kanarek, a nickname meaning ‘canary’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The canary name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the canary family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of canary Families in the US in 1920
Number of canary families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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