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The norris Surname

norris Name Meaning and History

  1. regional name for someone who had migrated from the North (i.e. further north in England, or from Scotland or Scandinavia), from Old French nor(r)eis ‘northerner’.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in a house on the north side of a settlement or estate, from Middle English north ‘north’ + hous ‘house’.
  3. occupational name for a wet-nurse or foster mother, from Old French nurice, norrice (Latin nutrix, genitive nutricis).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of norris Families in the US in 1920
Number of norris families
 410-818
 137-409		 1-136
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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