Raia Family History
- Raia Name Meaning
- topographic name from Sicilian raia ‘smilax’ (a climbing shrub). from Sicilian raja ‘ray’, ‘skate’ (the fish), presumably a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish or a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller. from Arabic rayah ‘flag’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,824 Historical Documents with Raia on Ancestry
- 11,301 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,937 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,193 Military Records
- 2,184 Immigration Records
- 3,209 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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from 1881 CA Census Data
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