Caraway Family History
- Caraway Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English carewei ‘caraway’ (from Old French carvi, caroi), probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a spice merchant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 162,668 Historical Documents with Caraway on Ancestry
- 40,091 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,690 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,467 Military Records
- 869 Immigration Records
- 94,551 Member Trees
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Number of Caraway families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Caraway last name |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Caraway census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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