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fleming Name Meaning and History

  1. English: ethnic name for someone from Flanders. In the Middle Ages there was considerable commercial intercourse between England and the Netherlands, particularly in the wool trade, and many Flemish weavers and dyers settled in England. The word reflects a Norman French form of Old French flamenc, from the stem flam- + the Germanic suffix -ing. The surname is also common in south and east Scotland and in Ireland, where it is sometimes found in the Gaelicized form Pléimeann.
  2. German: variant of Flemming, cognate with 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fleming Families in the US in 1920
Number of fleming families
 553-1103
 185-552		 1-184
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