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islas Name Meaning and History

Spanish: habitational name from a place called Islas (Málaga, Ciudad Real), or a topographic name meaning ‘from the islands’ (for example the Canaries), from the plural of isla ‘island’, from Latin insula.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of islas Families in the US in 1920
Number of islas families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 59
ThreadAuthorReplies
finding ancesters Anna Islas 8
Arizona JAL 12
Yslas/Islas - Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Lampazos - 1700s Tomas Rodriguez 1
Maria Islas Gomez Barbara Lusar 12
Luis Pulido Osequera Maria Elena Pulido Torres 2
Info on Grandfather... Juan Alvarez Islas 5
Alfred Islas alfredislas 0
Hermanos/as de mi Padre Daniel Islas 2
Celso Islas married to Paula Fernandez/Jose Cano married to Antonia Acosta? Jim Riley 0
Obit. Maria Acosta Islas KAYROM 0

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