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The sinclair Surname

sinclair Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish (of Norman origin): name of a powerful Scottish clan, originally a habitational name from Saint-Clair-sur-Elle in La Manche or Saint-Clair-l’Évêque in Calvados, so called from the dedication of their churches to St. Clarus (see Clare 3).
  2. Jewish: Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.

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

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Distribution of sinclair Families in the US in 1920
Number of sinclair families
 148-294
 50-147		 1-49
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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