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singer Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.
  2. English: variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.
  3. German: variant of Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of singer Families in the US in 1920
Number of singer families
 489-975
 164-488
 1-163
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