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The squire Surname

squire Name Meaning and History

English: status name from Middle English squyer ‘esquire’, ‘a man belonging to the feudal rank immediately below that of knight’ (from Old French esquier ‘shield bearer’). At first it denoted a young man of good birth attendant on a knight, or by extension any attendant or servant, but by the 14th century the meaning had been generalized, and referred to social status rather than age. By the 17th century, the term denoted any member of the landed gentry, but this is unlikely to have influenced the development of the surname.

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

Distribution of squire Families in the US in 1920
Number of squire families
 74-146
 25-73		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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