The Dauer Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Dauer, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Dauer by the numbers

Dauer is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name. In the 2010 US Census, 1,456 Americans gave Dauer as their last name (rank 18,808). 362 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Dauer name at birth. Births ran at 14 in 1891–1900 and 26 in 1991–2000.

Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Dauer, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records. Public name statistics give a good picture of the Dauer surname.

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