Somers Family History
Somers Name Meaning
Irish: adopted for Ó Somacháin; see Summers . Irish: in Northern Ireland adopted for Gaelic Mag Shamradháin; see McGovern . In Irish samhradh means ‘summer’. English (Somerset): variant of Summers . Dutch and Flemish: from Middle Dutch somer ‘summer’ a nickname for someone of a warm disposition or for someone associated with the season in some other way. Dutch and Flemish: habitational or topographic name referring to a house named De Zomer (‘The Summer’) or a topographic name for someone from a location named with zomer ‘summer’ such as Zomerdijk (‘summer dyke’). Dutch and Flemish: occupational name for a craftsman who hems (textile plasterwork baskets barrels) derived from somen ‘to hem’.7: Dutch and Flemish: nickname from Middle Dutch somer ‘pack animal’.8: Dutch: in part of German origin (see Sommers ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022