Agate Family History
Agate Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘at the gate’,
i.e. one of the gates of a medieval city. However, in northern
counties, Middle English gate (from Old Norse gata) also
meant ‘street’, and in some instances the surname may derive from this
sense.Southern Italian: from the Greek personal name
Agathe meaning ‘virtuous’, ‘honest’.Indian
(Maharashtra); pronounced as ag-tay: Hindu (Brahman) name, from
Marathi ag?te ‘live coal’ (from Sanskrit agni
‘fire’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Agate
Name Distribution of Agate Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Agate families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Agate families
|
78 - 154 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Agate families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Agate Family Origin
Agate Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Agate
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Agate Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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