Lever Family History
- Lever Name Meaning
- nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares. topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English l?fer ‘rush’, ‘reed’, ‘iris’. Compare Laver 3. Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire) are named with this word (in a collective sense) and in some cases the surname may also be derived from these places. possibly from an unrecorded Middle English survival of an Old English personal name, Leofhere, composed of the elements leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + here ‘army’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 291,239 Historical Documents with Lever on Ancestry
- 129,116 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 66,798 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,031 Military Records
- 8,109 Immigration Records
- 80,185 Member Trees
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Number of Lever families
 633 - 1,264  212 - 632 |
 1 - 211  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lever families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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