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mains Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and northern English: topographic name for a dweller at the chief farm (or home farm) on an estate, Scottish mains, or a habitational name from any of the various minor places named with this word (originally a shortened form of domain, later associated with the adjective main ‘principal’).
  2. English and Scottish: variant of Main 1–4.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mains Families in the US in 1920
Number of mains families
 35-68
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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