Tanner Family History
Tanner Name Meaning
English and Dutch: occupational name for a tanner of skins,
Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. (The Middle
English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin
tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late
Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb
tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark
was used in the process.Swiss and German: habitational
name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz
Mountains and Silesia) or Tann (southern Germany).Finnish:
topographic or ornamental name from Finnish tanner ‘open
field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
1,107,168
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tanner
Name Distribution of Tanner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tanner families
 241 - 479  81 - 240 |
 1 - 80  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tanner families
|
526 - 1,050 176 - 525 |
1 - 175 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tanner families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tanner census records
You can see how Tanner families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Tanner census records
>
Tanner Family Origin
Tanner Immigration Information
Click on a circle in the chart to view Tanner immigration records
You can find out when most of the Tanner families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Tanner immigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Tanner
Click on a circle in the chart to view Tanner birth and death records
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates,
death dates, addresses and more.
View all Tanner ancestors in the SSDI >
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Tanner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tanner census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Tanner ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Tanner census records >
Tanner Civil War Service Records
Message Board about Tanner
1159 Threads, 67
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Tanner.
Threads: 1159 - Messages: 67
Start a FREE Tanner family tree
It only takes a few minutes. Search for your ancestors and discover your family
history.
About Ancestry.com
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×