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Sommer Name Meaning
English and Irish: variant of Summer.German
and Danish: from Middle German sumer, Danish, Norwegian
sommer ‘summer’, a nickname for someone of a warm disposition,
or for someone associated with the season in some other way or from
living in a sunny place, in some instances a metonymic occupational
name for a basketweaver or a drummer, from Middle High German
sum(b)er, sum(m)er ‘basket’, ‘basketry’, ‘drum’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Sommer
‘summer’. Like the other seasonal names, this was also one of the
group of names that were bestowed on Jews more or less at random by
government officials in 18th- and 19th-century central Europe.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sommer Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sommer families
 126 - 250  43 - 125 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sommer families
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20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sommer families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sommer Family Origin
Sommer Immigration Information
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Sommer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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