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The arras Surname

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.

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Distribution of arras Families in the US in 1920
Number of arras families
 13-24
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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