Bania Family History
- Bania Name Meaning
- Polish: from bania ‘gourd’, ‘globe’, ‘round, bulging object’, probably applied as a nickname for a small fat man.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,261 Historical Documents with Bania on Ancestry
- 3,436 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,078 Census and Voter Lists
- 314 Military Records
- 683 Immigration Records
- 750 Member Trees
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Number of Bania families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bania 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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