Judge Family History
- Judge Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for an officer of justice or a nickname for a solemn and authoritative person thought to behave like a judge, from Middle English, Old French juge (Latin iudex, from ius ‘law’ + dicere to say), which replaced the Old English term dema. Compare Dempster. Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an Bhreitheamhain, later Mac an Bhreithimh ‘son of the judge (breitheamhnach)’. Compare Brain.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 641,397 Historical Documents with Judge on Ancestry
- 250,906 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 131,883 Census and Voter Lists
- 40,457 Military Records
- 20,298 Immigration Records
- 197,853 Member Trees
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Number of Judge families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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299 - 596 100 - 298 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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56 - 110 19 - 55 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 55
- Union
- 153
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