Tait Family History
Tait Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: nickname for a cheerful person, from
Old Norse teitr ‘cheerful’, ‘gay’. This surname is quite
distinct in origin from Tate.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Tait Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tait families
 55 - 107  19 - 54 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tait families
|
631 - 1,260 211 - 630 |
1 - 210 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tait families
|
631 - 1,260 211 - 630 |
1 - 210 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tait census records
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Tait Family Origin
Tait Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Tait
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Tait Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tait census records
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Tait Civil War Service Records
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