Mira Family History
- Mira Name Meaning
- Galician and Portuguese: probably a habitational name from any of the places in Galicia and Portugal named Mira. Catalan: of uncertain origin; possibly from the Arabic personal name Amira, or a derivative of Mir. Italian: apparently from the personal name Mira, feminine form of Miro, from Late Latin Mirus and Mira, respectively, from Latin mirus ‘wonderful’, ‘marvellous’. Czech and Polish: from a pet form of any of various personal names formed with the element mir ‘peace’, ‘quiet’, ‘esteem’ (see Mir).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 25,256 Historical Documents with Mira on Ancestry
- 16,561 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,489 Census and Voter Lists
- 455 Military Records
- 2,475 Immigration Records
- 3,276 Member Trees
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Number of Mira families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mira 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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