Last Name SUMMERS

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Meaning The son of Summer. Just as ecclessiastical seasons gave us Noel Pentecost, Pask, Christman, etc, so several centuriesearler popular names for children were descriptive of the natural season in which the child was born, or even the state of the weather. Hence such personal names as Snow, Storm, Winter, Summer, Spring, etc. Such local names as Somerby, Somercoates, Somerford, Somersby, Somersham, Somerton, all implying that the first settler bore the name of Somer.
Origin English, Scottish, Jewish, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Irish, Falkland

Rank 541 (2000 US census) 499 (1990 US census)
Count 55,391 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 80.58%, or 44634 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 14.48%, or 8021 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.5%, or 277 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.13%, or 626 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.68%, or 931 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.63%, or 903 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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