Summer Family History
- Summer Name Meaning
- English and German: from Middle English sum(m)er, Middle High German sumer ‘summer’, hence a nickname for someone of a warm or sunny disposition, or for someone associated with the season of summer in some other way. English: assimilated variant of Sumner. English: assimilated variant of Sumpter. Irish (Leinster and Munster): Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Samhraidh ‘descendant of Samhradh’, a byname meaning ‘summer’. The Gaelic name is also Anglicized as O’Sawrie, O’Sawra. German: from Middle High German summer ‘woven basket’ and, by extension, a measure of grain; also ‘drum’, hence a metonymic occupational name or nickname from any of these senses.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 258,851 Historical Documents with Summer on Ancestry
- 98,326 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 65,085 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,363 Military Records
- 10,620 Immigration Records
- 64,457 Member Trees
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Number of Summer families
 395 - 787  132 - 394 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Summer families
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12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Summer 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
Summer census records
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