Mordecai Family History
Mordecai Name Meaning
Jewish: from a Hebrew Biblical personal name, etymologically
related to that of the Babylonian god Marduk. Mordecai was the
name of a captive Jew in the palace of the Persian king Ahasuerus; he
was guardian to his orphaned cousin Esther, who became Ahasuerus’s
queen and saved the Jews in his kingdom from threatened destruction
(as recorded in the Old Testament Book of Esther).Welsh:
from the Biblical personal name (see 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Mordecai Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mordecai families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mordecai families
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83 - 163 28 - 82 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mordecai Family Origin
Mordecai Immigration Information
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Mordecai Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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