Raghavan Family History
- Raghavan Name Meaning
- Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit raghava ‘derived from Raghu’, ‘descendant of Raghu’ (an epithet of the god Rama, incarnation of Vishnu) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 881 Historical Documents with Raghavan on Ancestry
- 579 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 91 Census and Voter Lists
- 33 Military Records
- 161 Immigration Records
- 17 Member Trees
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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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