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miser Name Meaning and History

  1. Catalan: probably variant of misser, from Vulgar Latin mi senior, which was used as a title for men of letters.
  2. Possibly a variant of German Misser, a topographic name for someone who lived by a bog.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of miser Families in the US in 1920
Number of miser families
 30-57
 11-29
 1-10
 0
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