Hai Family History
- Hai Name Meaning
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic hayy ‘alive’. Al-Hayy, ‘the Living’, is one of the attributes of Allah. Chinese : from the name of Hai Qun, a senior minister of the state of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). The character for this name also means ‘ocean’. Vietnamese: unexplained. Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew chai ‘alive’, ‘vivid’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 39,961 Historical Documents with Hai on Ancestry
- 15,988 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,422 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,517 Military Records
- 2,998 Immigration Records
- 8,036 Member Trees
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Number of Hai families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hai census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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- Confederate
- 2
- Union
- 3
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