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deer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Dear.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from (Old and New) Deer in Aberdeenshire.
  3. Hungarian: variant of Dér, from the secular personal name.

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deer Family Facts

Distribution of deer Families in the US in 1920
Number of deer families
 33-63
 12-32		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 87 - Messages: 255
ThreadAuthorReplies
Deer David Frances Elson 11
Joe, Yarner, Mary, Sealy & Solomon Deer MHardin28 0
Deer family. Cambridgeshire England sockswereus 3
George Deer (KY) kmdeer11 1
What is the origin of the name Deer? JanetLWood 3
Bert (Robert?) Deer kthibod908 1
Deer Famimly from Great Hallingbury, Essex Les_Dear 0
Book re: Deer mljl5962 1
Benjamin Franklin Deer/Seminole Indian Heritage? lbrown176 0
Deer lineage Lisa 11
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