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constable Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for the law-enforcement officer of a parish, from Middle English, Old French conestable, cunestable, from Late Latin comes stabuli ‘officer of the stable’. The title was also borne by various other officials during the Middle Ages, including the chief officer of the household (and army) of a medieval ruler, and this may in some cases be the source of the surname.
  2. Americanized spelling of Dutch Constapel, an occupational name for the chief gunner aboard a ship or in the garrison of a fort.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of constable Families in the US in 1920
Number of constable families
 52-102
 18-51		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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