Rio Family History
- Rio Name Meaning
- Spanish (Río), Portuguese, and Italian: from río ‘river’, ‘brook’ (from Latin rivus), applied either as a topographic name or as a habitational name from a place named with this word. Southern French (Occitan): variant of Rioux.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 236,176 Historical Documents with Rio on Ancestry
- 159,169 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,769 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,436 Military Records
- 17,012 Immigration Records
- 31,790 Member Trees
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Number of Rio families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rio census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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