Mak Family History
- Mak Name Meaning
- Chinese : Cantonese variant of Mai 2. Polish and Ukrainian: from a short form of the personal name Makary, Makar, or some other Slavic form of the Greek personal name Makarios ‘blessed’. Polish, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Slovienian: from mak ‘poppy’, a nickname for someone who grew poppies or (as a Jewish name) an ornamental name. Hungarian (Mák): from Mák, a short form of the ecclesistical personal name Makár, Hungarian form of Greek Makarios ‘blessed’. Dutch: variant of Mack 2 and 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 99,358 Historical Documents with Mak on Ancestry
- 63,196 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,319 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,277 Military Records
- 15,572 Immigration Records
- 4,994 Member Trees
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Number of Mak families
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 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mak families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mak 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
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