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madeira Name Meaning and History

  1. Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from madeira ‘wood’, ‘timber’ (Late Latin materia, from classical Latin materies ‘material’, ‘substance’).
  2. local name from the island of Madeira, which was named with Portuguese madeira ‘timber’ because of the timber that grew there. The island was colonized in the 15th century under the patronage of Prince Henry the Navigator.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of madeira Families in the US in 1920
Number of madeira families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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