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The sommer Surname

sommer Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Irish: variant of Summer.
  2. German and Danish: from Middle German sumer, Danish, Norwegian sommer ‘summer’, a nickname for someone of a warm disposition, or for someone associated with the season in some other way or from living in a sunny place, in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a basketweaver or a drummer, from Middle High German sum(b)er, sum(m)er ‘basket’, ‘basketry’, ‘drum’.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Sommer ‘summer’. Like the other seasonal names, this was also one of the group of names that were bestowed on Jews more or less at random by government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central Europe.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sommer Families in the US in 1920
Number of sommer families
 126-250
 43-125		 1-42
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