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aird Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from a place named with Gaelic àird(e) ‘height’, ‘promontory’, or ‘headland’, from the adjective àrd ‘high’, ‘lofty’, cognate with Latin arduus ‘steep’, ‘difficult’. There is one such place near Hurlford in Ayrshire, and another in Inch, Wigtownshire. See also Ard.

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Distribution of aird Families in the US in 1920
Number of aird families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Catherine Aird and Robert Smith, Alabama fourgypsies 0
Aird (Lanark, Scotland, Alabama-Illinois) JoelleLeitschuh73 10
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