Faia Family History
- Faia Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: probably from Greek Phagas, a nickname meaning ‘heavy eater’ or ‘glutton’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,274 Historical Documents with Faia on Ancestry
- 1,456 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 670 Census and Voter Lists
- 160 Military Records
- 319 Immigration Records
- 669 Member Trees
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Number of Faia families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Faia census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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