Held Family History
- Held Name Meaning
- German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German, Middle Dutch, Yiddish held ‘hero’. As a Jewish name, it is often ornamental. German: from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’ as the first element. English: variant of Heald.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 603,776 Historical Documents with Held on Ancestry
- 399,099 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,874 Census and Voter Lists
- 59,521 Military Records
- 12,604 Immigration Records
- 75,678 Member Trees
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Number of Held families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Held families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Held 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
Held census records
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