Nairn Family History
- Nairn Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from the place of this name, east of Inverness, named for the river at whose mouth it stands. The river name is of pre-Celtic origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 136,928 Historical Documents with Nairn on Ancestry
- 37,381 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 40,665 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,205 Military Records
- 6,707 Immigration Records
- 48,970 Member Trees
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Number of Nairn families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nairn families
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107 - 211 36 - 106 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nairn census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Nairn census records
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