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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.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

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Name Distribution of Commander Families

  • 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

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Commander Immigration Information

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Commander Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

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