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petra Name Meaning and History

Aragonese and Catalan: habitational name from any of the place called Peralta, corresponding to old Aragonese Petra Alta; or possibly also from Petra in Mallorca, an important place during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The petra name in History

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Distribution of petra Families in the US in 1920
Number of petra families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Frank or Elizabeth Petra of Waterloo Iowa J.Jelinek 1
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