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Singer

in Illinois

There are 923 people with the last name "Singer" in Illinois.

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NameRank
Singer 1,132
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  1. is 1,128th most common Chamberlain
  2. is 1,129th most common Devine
  3. is 1,130th most common Kraus
  4. is 1,131st most common Patino
  5. is 1,132nd most common Singer
  6. is 1,133rd most common Benton
  7. is 1,134th most common Mazur
  8. is 1,135th most common Harden
  9. is 1,136th most common Purcell

Similar Names and Nicknames

Singh, Singleton, Singletary, Sander, Sing, Singley, Sandra, Sanger, Songer, Senger

Most Common First Names for Singer

Robert, Michael, Joseph, Richard, Ruth, Barbara, David, Gary, James, Karen

Meaning & History

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.

English: variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.

German: variant of Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.

FOREBEARS Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the eponymous sewing machine, was born in 1811 in Pittstown, NY, the son of German immigrant Adam Reisinger. He had five wives and fathered 24 children. Singer, who incorporated his company as the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1864, left a fortune worth $13 million to his various heirs.

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Robert Singer, IL (9 searches)
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