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The sulzer Surname

sulzer Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for someone who made prepared meats, from Middle High German sulzer ‘butcher’, ‘charcutier’.
  2. German: from a derivative of Middle High German sulze ‘brine’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a source of salty water, or a habitational name for someone from a place called Sulz.

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Distribution of sulzer Families in the US in 1920
Number of sulzer families
 27-51
 10-26
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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