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officer Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for the holder of any office, from Anglo-Norman French officer (an agent derivative of Old French office ‘duty’, ‘service’, Latin officium ‘service’, ‘task’).
  2. occupational name for a sewer of gold embroidery, from Anglo-Norman French orfroiser (an agent derivative of Old French orfrois, Late Latin auriphyrigium ‘Phrygian gold’--the Phrygians being famed in antiquity for their gold embroidery).

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

Distribution of officer Families in the US in 1920
Number of officer families
 36-69
 13-35
 1-12
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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