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dresser Name Meaning and History

  1. German: eastern variant of Drescher.
  2. English: from an agent derivative of Middle English dressen ‘to arrange’ (in certain specific senses), possibly an occupational name for someone who dressed or finished cloth. Compare Fuller.

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

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Distribution of dresser Families in the US in 1920
Number of dresser families
 48-94
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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