Lama Family History
- Lama Name Meaning
- Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh, lama (from Latin lama). In some cases the Italian and Spanish name may be habitational, from any of numerous places named with this word. Buddhist name found among people from Tibet and Nepal, from Tibetan blama ‘priest’, ‘monk’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 36,657 Historical Documents with Lama on Ancestry
- 23,109 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,188 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,879 Military Records
- 2,592 Immigration Records
- 3,889 Member Trees
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Number of Lama families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lama families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lama census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Lama census records
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