Severin Family History
- Severin Name Meaning
- French (Séverin), Italian (Venice), German, Swedish, etc.: from a personal name, Latin Severinus, from the same root as Severus (see Severe). This was borne by several early Christian saints, including bishops of Trier (2nd century), Cologne (4th century), Bordeaux (5th century), and Santempeda (6th century), and hermits of Paris (6th century) and Tivoli (8th century), as well as a 5th-century apostle of Austria. Reduced form of Ashkenazic Jewish Severinovsky, a habitational name for someone from Severinovka in Ukraine.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 99,107 Historical Documents with Severin on Ancestry
- 53,711 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,325 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,504 Military Records
- 5,058 Immigration Records
- 23,509 Member Trees
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Number of Severin families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Severin families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Severin census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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