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commander Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English comander, comando(u)r ‘leader’, ‘ruler’, probably applied as a nickname, although Reaney suggests that the term, derived from Old French comandeor, also denoted the officer in charge of a commandery, for example of the Knights Templars, and in this sense it would have been an occupational or status name.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Kommander, a name of uncertain origin. Brechenmacher suggests that it may be a Classicized form of Hoffmann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of commander Families in the US in 1920
Number of commander families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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