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handy Name Meaning and History

English: nickname from Middle English hondi ‘skillful with one’s hands’, ‘dextrous’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the handy family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of handy Families in the US in 1920
Number of handy families
 107-212
 36-106		 1-35
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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