Dear Family History
- Dear Name Meaning
- from the Middle English personal name Dere, Old English Deora, in part a short form of various compound names formed with deore ‘dear’, in part a byname meaning ‘beloved’, or deor ‘brave’, ‘bold’. nickname from Middle English dere, Old English deor ‘wild animal’, or from the adjective of the same form, meaning ‘wild’, ‘fierce’. By the Middle English period the adjective was falling out of use, and the noun was beginning to be restricted to the sense of modern English deer, so that this may be the sense behind the surname in some cases.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 445,964 Historical Documents with Dear on Ancestry
- 178,028 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 93,392 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,417 Military Records
- 6,565 Immigration Records
- 154,562 Member Trees
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Number of Dear families
 34 - 65  12 - 33 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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299 - 595 100 - 298 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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44 - 86 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 111
- Confederate
- 61
- Union
- 50
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