Mura Family History
- Mura Name Meaning
- Japanese: ornamental name, now rare in Japan, from mura ‘village’; listed in the Shinsen shojiroku. Occurrences in America probably originated in the Ryukyu Islands, or may be shortened forms of other names containing this word. French: according to Morlet, a topographic name from a dialect variant of mure ‘ruined wall(s)’, from mur ‘wall’, Latin murus, or a habitational name from places called La Mure in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Isère, Rhône, and Puy-de-Dôme. Italian (southern Sardinia): topographic name or nickname from Sardinian mura ‘mulberry’ or ‘blackberry’. Catalan: habitational name from Mura in Barcelona. Czech and Slovak: from Muric, a personal name equivalent to Maurice (see Morris).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 27,229 Historical Documents with Mura on Ancestry
- 13,166 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,654 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,922 Military Records
- 2,471 Immigration Records
- 5,016 Member Trees
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Number of Mura families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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