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mader Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mædere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant.
  2. German and Dutch (Mader, Mäder): occupational name for a reaper or mower, Middle High German mader, mæder, Middle Dutch mader.
  3. French (southwestern and southeastern): metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mader Families in the US in 1920
Number of mader families
 71-140
 24-70		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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