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madera Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish and Asturian-Leonese: from madera ‘wood’, ‘timber’ (from Late Latin materia), probably applied as a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example La Madera in Asturies.
  2. Czech (Madera): ethnic name from an old word for a Hungarian (see Magyar).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of madera Families in the US in 1920
Number of madera families
 15-27
 6-14
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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