Strahl Family History
Strahl Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German strale ‘flash of
lightning’, ‘strip of land’; it may have been a nickname from the
first sense, but appears more generally to have derived from the
second sense, as a topographic name or from a field name.German (Strähl): metonymic occupational name for a comb
maker, from Middle High German stæl ‘comb’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Yiddish shtral or
German Strahl ‘ray of light’, ‘sunbeam’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Strahl
Name Distribution of Strahl Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Strahl families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Strahl Family Origin
Strahl Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Strahl
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Strahl Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Strahl census records
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