Wayland Family History
Wayland Name Meaning
English: from a Germanic personal name, Welond.English: habitational name for someone from a place called Wayland
Hundred in Norfolk.Perhaps an Americanized
spelling of German Weiland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wayland
Name Distribution of Wayland Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wayland families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wayland families
|
80 - 157 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Wayland last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wayland census records
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Wayland Family Origin
Wayland Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wayland
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Wayland Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wayland census records
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Wayland Civil War Service Records
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