Commander Family History
Commander Name Meaning
English: from Middle English comander,
comando(u)r ‘leader’, ‘ruler’, probably applied as a nickname,
although Reaney suggests that the term, derived from Old French
comandeor, also denoted the officer in charge of a commandery,
for example of the Knights Templars, and in this sense it would have
been an occupational or status name.Americanized spelling
of German Kommander, a name of uncertain origin. Brechenmacher
suggests that it may be a Classicized form of Hoffmann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Commander Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Commander families
 14 - 26  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Commander families
|
27 - 51 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Commander last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Commander Family Origin
Commander Immigration Information
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Commander Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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