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london Name Meaning and History

English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone who came from London or a nickname for someone who had made a trip to London or had some other connection with the city. In some cases, however, the Jewish name was purely ornamental. The place name, recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus in the Latinized form Londinium, is obscure in origin and meaning, but may be derived from pre-Celtic (Old European) roots with a meaning something like ‘place at the navigable or unfordable river’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of london Families in the US in 1920
Number of london families
 142-282
 48-141		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Amelia Arrobus nsheppeard13 2
Edward London Stephen London 2
London family from Chicago and Texas donnalondon50 6
Mineola, Texas ANDREASWANSON13 0
John Levi London & Julie Broome London, Ft. Smith, ARK early 1900s Jack Broome 0
Vance family in London Barnbarroch 0
London Surname terry Ive 4
London Lost londonkrista 1
John J London in Michigan milligab39 0
Peatling & Pavely Families Gladys Haley 1
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