Rath Family History
- Rath Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): descriptive epithet for a wise person or counselor, from Middle High German rat ‘counsel’, ‘advice’, German Rat ‘counsel’, ‘advice’, also ‘stock’, ‘supply’. German (also Swiss Räth): from a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names formed with rad, rat ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ as the first element. German (Rhineland): habitational name from any of various places called Rath, which derives from Middle Low German roden, raden ‘to clear land for cultivation’. Irish: in some cases a habitational name from a place called Rath; in County Derry it is a reduced form of McIlwraith (see McIlrath).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 344,494 Historical Documents with Rath on Ancestry
- 165,363 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 55,118 Census and Voter Lists
- 24,265 Military Records
- 11,157 Immigration Records
- 88,591 Member Trees
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Number of Rath families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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