Maras Family History
- Maras Name Meaning
- Polish (also Marasz), Czech, and Slovak: from a derivative of the personal names Marek or Martin. Czech (Máras): from the name for a man who was the son or husband of a woman called Márí, Czech form of Maria. Croatian: from a pet form of any of several personal name beginning with Mar-, e.g. Marijan, Marin, Marko. Polish: topographic name from Polish dialect maras ‘marsh’. Greek: nickname from Albanian marrë ‘crazy’, ‘wild’, ‘strong’. This element is also found as part of composite names such as Maragiannis ‘crazy John’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 23,993 Historical Documents with Maras on Ancestry
- 14,524 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,962 Census and Voter Lists
- 920 Military Records
- 2,275 Immigration Records
- 2,312 Member Trees
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Number of Maras families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Maras families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Maras 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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