Ricotta Family History
- Ricotta Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: from ricotta, the name of a soft cheese, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold cheese or a nickname for a man who was dominated by his womenfolk or thought to be ‘soft in the head’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,848 Historical Documents with Ricotta on Ancestry
- 5,165 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,851 Census and Voter Lists
- 669 Military Records
- 937 Immigration Records
- 4,226 Member Trees
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Number of Ricotta families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ricotta families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ricotta census records
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