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arras Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: habitational name from the city of Arras in Artois, northern France, or one of the other places in France so named.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Airhouse, a locality in Channelkirk, Berwickshire.
  3. English: habitational name from a place called Arras in East Yorkshire, earlier spelled Erghes, from the plural of Old Norse erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’.
  4. German: metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant, from a type of woolen cloth for which the city of Arras in Flanders was famous in the Middle Ages. This name is also established in Mexico.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of arras Families in the US in 1920
Number of arras families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Threads: 11 - Messages: 33
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Leonard H Arras Jrenekeller 0
Arras Family chrisgmakeupartist 3
Make my day and contact me :) Chrissie Arras 2
William Arras/Phillipine Schaeffer jeffofhhk 8
Peter Arras kkarenharris 0
Just starting Mark Arras 3
Arras - Lannert RMiller 4
Curvin D. Arras William Suzanne 2
HI! Craig Arras 0
Henry (Heinrich?)Arras/Maria Darmsfatter? jeffofhhk 0
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