Imam Family History
- Imam Name Meaning
- Muslim: status name from Arabic imam, literally ‘one who leads the way’, an honorific title for one who leads prayers in a mosque, also applied to the founders of Islamic law schools. Among Shiite Muslims the title imam is applied to the spiritual leaders descended from Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and her husband Ali, the fourth and last of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (see Ali).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,319 Historical Documents with Imam on Ancestry
- 1,167 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 315 Census and Voter Lists
- 965 Military Records
- 303 Immigration Records
- 569 Member Trees
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Number of Imam 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
Imam 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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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Imam census records
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