Vohra Family History
- Vohra Name Meaning
- Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community. It is of uncertain origin, but is popularly thought to derive from Sanskrit vyuha ‘battle array’. Muslim (Pakistan): perhaps an occupational name from Urdu bohora ‘merchant’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,612 Historical Documents with Vohra on Ancestry
- 1,227 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 65 Census and Voter Lists
- 23 Military Records
- 221 Immigration Records
- 76 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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