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downer Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived in an area of downland (the rolling chalk hills of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent), from Old English dun ‘down’, ‘low hill’ (of Celtic origin) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant. Dun is a common element of English place names.
  2. Irish: variant of Dooner 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of downer Families in the US in 1920
Number of downer families
 43-83
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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