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governor Name Meaning and History

American English: occupational name for a member of the household of a governor.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of governor Families in the US in 1920
Number of governor families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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