Aro Family History
- Aro Name Meaning
- Finnish: topographic and ornamental name from aro ‘hard, relatively infertile ground’ or ‘wet meadow’, ‘swamp’, found both as a place name and as a surname throughout Finland. In many cases the surname was adopted during the name conversion movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in southern Finland. In the U.S. this is also a shortened form of names such as Kiviaro, of which the first element is kivi ‘stone’, ‘rock’. Spanish: habitational name, in some cases from Aro in Galicia, in others probably from Haro in Rioja.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 90,888 Historical Documents with Aro on Ancestry
- 73,885 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,846 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,901 Military Records
- 1,866 Immigration Records
- 5,390 Member Trees
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Number of Aro families
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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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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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