Arai Family History
- Arai Name Meaning
- Japanese: variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘new well’; the original meaning is ‘new residence’. It is also written with characters pronounced as Imai, and is found in eastern Japan, especially in Saitama prefecture.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,327 Historical Documents with Arai on Ancestry
- 3,121 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 843 Census and Voter Lists
- 595 Military Records
- 4,347 Immigration Records
- 421 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Arai census records
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