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hunter Name Meaning and History

Scottish, English, and northern Irish: variant of Hunt, a Middle English secondary derivative formed with the addition of the agent noun suffix -er.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hunter Families in the US in 1920
Number of hunter families
 902-1801
 301-901
 1-300
 0
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