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nations Name Meaning and History

English: variant of Nation.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of nations Families in the US in 1920

Number of nations families

30-58

11-29

1-10

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Nations Family	Mildred Marler Nations	37
rosa (rosalie) nations	jerry kite	2
Adolphus Starling Nation	jnation_1	4
John Nations	Tammie Winkley	16
Nathaniel Nations	Sue Nations	2
Abby Cairl Nations Sr m Allie Allen Missouri	shelleyd73171	0
Nations Family	Carol McConnell Hall	1
Seeking information on Etta Nations Sproles	nmhill99	0
Margaret Nations and James Willis Hufstedler	4harrises	1
Family Reunion - Jackson Co., North Carolina	TAMHBRIH	0

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