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The ledger Surname

ledger Name Meaning and History

  1. from a Norman personal name, Leodegar, Old French Legier, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + gar, ger ‘spear’. The name was borne by a 7th-century bishop of Autun, whose fame contributed to the popularity of the name in France. (In Germany the name was connected with a different saint, an 8th-century bishop of Münster.)
  2. variant of Letcher, in part a deliberate alteration to avoid the association with Middle English lecheor ‘lecher’.

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

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Distribution of ledger Families in the US in 1920
Number of ledger families
 20-37
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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