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aro Name Meaning and History

  1. Finnish: topographic and ornamental name from aro ‘hard, relatively infertile ground’ or ‘wet meadow’, ‘swamp’, found both as a place name and as a surname throughout Finland. In many cases the surname was adopted during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in southern Finland. In the U.S. this is also a shortened form of names such as Kiviaro, of which the first element is kivi ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
  2. Spanish: habitational name, in some cases from Aro in Galicia, in others probably from Haro in Rioja.

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Distribution of aro Families in the US in 1920
Number of aro families
 10-17
 4-9
 1-3
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