Last Name GIRDLER

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Meaning The girdler, a maker of waistbands or belts. A girdler's glid seems to have existed in all the larger towns. The 'girdellers' formed part of the procession (1415) in the York Pagent. At Norwich, in 1533, they walked with the coverlet-weavers and darnick-weavers; at Chester, with tthe poynters, cardmakers, and hatters.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 34,342 (2000 US census) 28,957 (1990 US census)
Count 624 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 97.28%, or 607 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.8%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 1.12%, or 7 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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