Ambler
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Frequency: (814)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (Yorkshire): from Middle English ambler ‘walker’, ‘steadypaced horse or mule’ (ultimately from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’), probably applied to someone with a steady, easy-going temperament. Reaney suggests that it may have been a facetious nickname for a fuller.
FOREBEARS: Richard Ambler is recorded in MA in 1639, in the New Haven Colony by 1647, and still living in CT in 1700. Many bearers are descended from William Ambler, who was mayor of Doncaster in 1717, at least one of whose sons settled in VA.
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