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lower Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin): occupational name denoting a servant who carried the ewer to guests at table so that they could wash their hands, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English ewerer (related to ewere ‘jug’), with the French definite article l’.
  2. Cornish: variant of Flower 4.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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lower Family Facts

Distribution of lower Families in the US in 1920
Number of lower families
 98-194
 33-97		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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