Harris Family History
- Harris Name Meaning
- English and Welsh (very common in southern England and South Wales): patronymic from the medieval English personal name Harry, pet form of Henry. This name is also well established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. In some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, both Harris and Harrison can be Anglicized forms of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. Greek: reduced form of the Greek personal name Kharalambos, composed of the elements khara ‘joy’ + lambein ‘to shine’. Jewish: Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,000,725 Historical Documents with Harris on Ancestry
- 6,316,526 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,282,811 Census and Voter Lists
- 658,797 Military Records
- 409,642 Immigration Records
- 10,332,949 Member Trees
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Number of Harris families
 6,769 - 13,536  2,257 - 6,768 |
 1 - 2,256  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harris families
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539 - 1,075 180 - 538 |
1 - 179 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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