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The esser Surname

esser Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a wheelwright or cartmaker, from Middle Low German asse ‘axle’ + the agent suffix -er.
  2. German: variant of Essner.
  3. English: perhaps a variant of Asser, itself a variant of Asher.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of esser Families in the US in 1920
Number of esser families
 50-97
 17-49		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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