Arita Family History
- Arita Name Meaning
- Japanese: written with characters meaning ‘has’ or ‘owns’ and ‘rice paddy’, the actual meaning could be ‘rice paddy of ants’. It is a habitational name most common west-central Japan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,178 Historical Documents with Arita on Ancestry
- 4,447 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,122 Census and Voter Lists
- 424 Military Records
- 1,953 Immigration Records
- 232 Member Trees
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Number of Arita families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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