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deer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Dear.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from (Old and New) Deer in Aberdeenshire.
  3. Hungarian: variant of Dér, from the secular personal name.

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

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

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Distribution of deer Families in the US in 1920
Number of deer families
 33-63
 12-32		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 86 - Messages: 253
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Deer family. Cambridgeshire England sockswereus 3
George Deer (KY) kmdeer11 1
What is the origin of the name Deer? JanetLWood 3
Bert (Robert?) Deer kthibod908 1
Deer Famimly from Great Hallingbury, Essex Les_Dear 0
Book re: Deer mljl5962 1
Benjamin Franklin Deer/Seminole Indian Heritage? lbrown176 0
Deer lineage Lisa 11
Mattie Deer jvon22 1
Josiah "Joe" D Deer of Pike or Walthall Co, MS Sallie_Harper 4
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