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demeter Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a weaver or cloth merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle High German timit, dimit denoting a type of cloth woven with double thread.
  2. Czech and Slovak: from the personal name Demeter, derived from Greek Demetrios (Latin Demetrius; see Demetriou).
  3. Hungarian: from the ecclesiastical name Demeter, or Dömötör, from Greek Demetrios (Latin Demetrius; see Demetriou).

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

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

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Distribution of demeter Families in the US in 1920
Number of demeter families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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