Araya Family History
- Araya Name Meaning
- Castilianized form of Basque and Catalan Araia, a habitational name from any of various places called Araia, for example in Araba, Basque Country, and Catelló de la Plana, Valencia. Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Araya, as for example the one in Canary Islands. Japanese: meaning ‘wild valley’ or ‘new valley’; found in eastern Japan and pronounced Aratani in western Japan. Neither version is particularly common.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 102,146 Historical Documents with Araya on Ancestry
- 95,752 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,284 Census and Voter Lists
- 128 Military Records
- 2,893 Immigration Records
- 1,089 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Araya census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Araya census records
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