Wann Family History
- Wann Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English wann ‘wan’, ‘pale’ (the meaning of the word in Old English was, conversely, ‘dark’). German: from the personal name Wano, a short form of Wambald (see Wambold). German: topographic name denoting a basket-shaped valley or on a basket-shaped knoll, Middle High German wann(e) ‘basket’ (see Wanner and Wannemacher).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 93,046 Historical Documents with Wann on Ancestry
- 27,990 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,522 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,393 Military Records
- 2,593 Immigration Records
- 37,548 Member Trees
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Number of Wann families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wann families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wann census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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