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Singer

in the US

There are 22,930 people with the last name "Singer" in the United States.

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Singer 1,148
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  1. is 1,144th most common Dwyer
  2. is 1,145th most common Morin
  3. is 1,146th most common Langley
  4. is 1,147th most common Childs
  5. is 1,148th most common Singer
  6. is 1,149th most common Whitfield
  7. is 1,150th most common Abraham
  8. is 1,151st most common Tapia
  9. is 1,152nd most common Foreman

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Singer

Robert, David, Michael, Richard, John, James, William, Mary, Steven, Mark

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.

Recent Searches for "Singer" in the US

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Robert Singer (96 searches)
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