Handa Family History
- Handa Name Meaning
- Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh name, probably from Panjabi h??n?da ‘cooking pot’. It is based on the name of a Khatri clan. Japanese: ‘half of a rice paddy’. The name originated in Yamato and Kawachi (now Nara and Osaka prefectures), and is found mostly in the Tokyo and Osaka areas, and the island of Okinawa.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,941 Historical Documents with Handa on Ancestry
- 5,048 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,976 Census and Voter Lists
- 519 Military Records
- 1,902 Immigration Records
- 496 Member Trees
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Number of Handa families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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