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ginger Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name for someone from Gingen or Giengen in Württemberg.
  2. English: from Middle English gingivere, gyngure, gingere ‘ginger’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a dealer in spices, or possibly a nickname for someone with reddish hair or a fiery temperament.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ginger Families in the US in 1920
Number of ginger families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Ludwick Ginger DianeMoore524 0
Ginger in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Kells06 2
Nancy R. Ginger Floyd (Red) Ginger 1
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Andrew L. GINGER (1822-1891) and James Alexander GINGER (1819-1897), Delaware Co, IA oldbruin 1
death of James Edward Ginger Sr. Penny (Ginger) Stevens 0
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