Arana Family History
- Arana Name Meaning
- Basque: topographic name from aran ‘valley’ + the Basque definite article -a. The name in the U.S. may have absorbed some instances of Araña, from Spanish araña ‘spider’, a nickname for a weaver or for an industrious or opportunistic person.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 137,182 Historical Documents with Arana on Ancestry
- 111,790 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,655 Census and Voter Lists
- 525 Military Records
- 6,324 Immigration Records
- 11,888 Member Trees
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Number of Arana families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Arana census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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