Last Name SUMNER

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Meaning The summoner, a legal officer, the shriff;s messenger. The 'p' in Sumpner is intrusive, as in Thopson, or Simpson, or Hampton.
One whose duty consisted in citing delinquents to the ecclesiastical courts; an apparitor; literally, a 'summoner.' "Sim 'Somnor,' in hast, wend thou thi way, Byd Joseph and his wyff, be name, At the 'coort' to apper this day, Hem to pourge of her defame." Coventry Mysteries. Chaucer gives us a description of the 'Sompnour' in his Canterbury Tales.
Origin English, Jewish, Spanish, Irish, South african

Rank 1,851 (2000 US census) 1,563 (1990 US census)
Count 17,837 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 89.66%, or 15993 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 5.93%, or 1058 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.39%, or 70 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.1%, or 196 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.5%, or 268 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.42%, or 253 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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