Last name: SUMMERS
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Last name frequency
SUMMERS : This last name is indexed 157,056 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SUMMERS : 1: English: variant of Summer with post-medieval excrescent -s.2: English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer).3: Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’ a personal name meaning ‘soft gentle innocent’ due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.4: Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish (Ashkenazic) name.
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