Zane Family History
Zane Name Meaning
English: unexplained. PWH: check IGI and Web on this. 1881 - Somerset, Devon; also respelling of Zahn.Italian (Venice and Mantua) and Greek (Zanes): from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i ‘John’ (see Zani).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Zahn. IGI, 1881.
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Name Distribution of Zane Families
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United States
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Number of Zane families
 37 - 71  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Zane families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Zane Family Origin
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Zane Family Occupations
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