Oliphant Family History
Oliphant Name Meaning
English, Scottish, French, and German: from Middle English, Old
French, Middle High German olifant ‘elephant’ (medieval Latin
olifantus, from classical Latin elephantus, Greek
elephas, genitive elephantos). The circumstances in
which this word was applied as a surname are not clear. It may have
been a nickname for a large, lumbering individual, or a metonymic
occupational name for a worker in ivory, or a habitational name from a
house distinguished by the sign of an elephant.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Oliphant
Name Distribution of Oliphant Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Oliphant families
 68 - 133  23 - 67 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Oliphant families
|
95 - 187 32 - 94 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Oliphant Family Origin
Oliphant Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Oliphant Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Oliphant
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