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The lamar Surname

lamar Name Meaning and History

  1. Possibly a variant spelling of French Lamarre.
  2. Possibly also Spanish: habitational name for someone from either of the two places called Mar in Asturias, probably named with mar ‘sea’ and the article la.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of lamar Families in the US in 1920
Number of lamar families
 125-247
 42-124		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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