Dormer Family History
Dormer Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a lazy man or a
sleepyhead, from Old French dormeor ‘sleeper’, ‘sluggard’
(Latin dormitor, from dormire to sleep).English:
most probably a habitational name, as medieval forms with de
are found, but if so the place of origin has not been identified.Irish: when not of the same origin as 1 or 2, this is a reduced
Anglicized form of the Donegal name Ó Díorma, a reduced
form of Ó Duibhdhíormaigh ‘descendant of
Duibhdhíormach’, a personal name composed of Gaelic
dubh ‘black’ + díormach ‘trooper’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dormer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dormer families
 22 - 41  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dormer families
|
175 - 347 59 - 174 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dormer families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dormer Family Origin
Dormer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Dormer
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Dormer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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