Raman Family History
- Raman Name Meaning
- Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit rama ‘pleasing’, ‘charming’ (see Ram) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 21,339 Historical Documents with Raman on Ancestry
- 10,198 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,479 Census and Voter Lists
- 540 Military Records
- 1,877 Immigration Records
- 3,245 Member Trees
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Number of Raman families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Raman families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Raman families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Raman 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
Raman census records
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- All Raman
- 11
- Confederate
- 3
- Union
- 8
from the Civil War Service Records
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