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The suhr Surname

suhr Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname for a bitter or cantankerous person, from Middle Low German sur ‘sour’.
  2. German: habitation name from a place so named in Schleswig-Holstein. The surname is also found in Sweden and Denmark, probably taken there from Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of suhr Families in the US in 1920
Number of suhr families
 28-53
 10-27		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 49 - Messages: 104
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Suhr Pommeren Vietzig Jerzy M. 4
Heinrich Suhr, Boitzenburg Voiderhagen in Teldau, Mecklenburg Schwerien, Germany DennisSuhr 1
Suhr name Mecklenburg Sandra Cona-Buonomo 3
Suhr, Pennslyvania historian4 5
John Suhr, 51, DEU>Chicago, IL, d. 5 Dec. 1892 djahern 0
Herman D. Suhr Stephen Popken 1
Do any of these names ring a bell? andkor1 1
Michael Suhr DSuhr3283 5
Patsy and Ben Suhr~Chicago mountaindove 1
Looking for information about Suhr family in Gosper Co., NE estumpf173 0
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