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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