Finger Family History
- Finger Name Meaning
- English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle English, Middle High German, Yiddish finger (modern German Finger), probably applied as a nickname for a man who had some peculiarity of the fingers, such as possessing a supernumerary one or having lost one or more of them through injury, or for someone who was small in stature or considered insignificant. As a Jewish name, it can also be an ornamental name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Finger families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Finger census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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