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maker Name Meaning and History

Dutch: occupational name for someone who made or repaired things, from an agent derivative of Dutch maken ‘to make or mend’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The maker name in History

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Distribution of maker Families in the US in 1920
Number of maker families
 69-135
 24-68		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 46 - Messages: 163
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Makers in California rmaker1952 0
R. C. Maker in Ballinger, TX 1943 drbrownlee 0
MAKERS IN CORNWALL MICHEALMAKER100 8
Maker/Indiana SusieK 3
Early Maker history MakHist1 20
Lawrence or Herbert Maker descendants Deveda75 10
maker family jazz53186 1
herbert maker blackbar1 0
Maker, Goff, Wheeler, Nova Scotia Bob Wheeler 2
Henderson Maker of Cutler, Maine kburby1 5
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