Vara Family History
- Vara Name Meaning
- Galician, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish: habitational name from Vara (Galicia), Vara del Rey (Cuenca), or La Vara (Asturies). Portuguese and Spanish: from vara ‘rod’, ‘stick’, ‘yardstick’ (Late Latin vara ‘forked stick’), applied as a nickname or metonymic occupational name in any of various possible senses; it may have been given to a keeper of animals, who used a stick to urge his charges on, or to an official who was responsible for checking weights and measures or who carried a rod as a symbol of his office.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 69,910 Historical Documents with Vara on Ancestry
- 49,090 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,957 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,109 Military Records
- 3,114 Immigration Records
- 11,640 Member Trees
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Number of Vara families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
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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