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latter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a worker in wood or a nickname for a thin person, from an agent derivative of Middle English latt ‘thin narrow strip of wood’, ‘lath’ (Old English lætt).
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cobbler, tinker, or the like, from an agent derivative of Yiddish laten ‘to patch’, ‘to repair’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The latter name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the latter family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of latter Families in the US in 1920
Number of latter families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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