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farmer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name from Middle English, Old French ferm(i)er (Late Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
  2. Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of farmer Families in the US in 1920
Number of farmer families
 266-530
 89-265		 1-88
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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