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Aird Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place named with Gaelic
àird(e) ‘height’, ‘promontory’, or ‘headland’, from the
adjective àrd ‘high’, ‘lofty’, cognate with Latin
arduus ‘steep’, ‘difficult’. There is one such place near
Hurlford in Ayrshire, and another in Inch, Wigtownshire. See also
Ard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Aird Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Aird families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Aird families
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47 - 91 16 - 46 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Aird families
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217 - 432 73 - 216 |
1 - 72 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Aird Family Origin
Aird Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Aird
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Aird Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Aird census records
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Aird Civil War Service Records
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