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macera Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Italian: topographic name from old central-southern Italian macera ‘dry-stone wall’, ‘pile of stones (collected from cultivated land)’, ‘stone ruins’.
  2. Southern Spanish: habitational name either from La Macera in Cáceres province or, more likely, from a Spanish form of the common Galician and Portuguese place name Maceira, from maceira ‘apple tree’.

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Distribution of macera Families in the US in 1920
Number of macera families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
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