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posner Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the city or province of Poznan (German Posen) in west-central Poland, the -er suffix indicating an inhabitant.

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Distribution of posner Families in the US in 1920
Number of posner families
 117-232
 40-116
 1-39
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