Amar Family History
- Amar Name Meaning
- French: Americanized spelling of Hemard. Hindu name found among people from Sind, Pakistan, derived from a personal name based on Sanskrit amar ‘immortal’. Jewish (Sephardic): ornamental name from ’amr, Levantine or Egyptian form of Arabic qamar ‘moon’, or from an Arabic personal name based on ?amr ’long-lived’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,789 Historical Documents with Amar on Ancestry
- 10,750 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,508 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,799 Military Records
- 1,689 Immigration Records
- 3,043 Member Trees
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Number of Amar families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Amar census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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