Safar Family History
- Safar Name Meaning
- Arabic and Jewish (Sephardic): occupational name from Arabic ?saffar ‘worker in copper or brass’. Muslim: from Arabic ?Safar, name of the second month of the Islamic calendar. This is sometimes chosen as a personal name for children born in this month. Czech (Šafár); Slovak (Šafár), Croatian, and Slovenian (Šafar); and Hungarian (Sáfár): status name from Czech šafár, Hungarian sáfár ‘steward’, ‘bailiff’. Compare German Schaffer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,185 Historical Documents with Safar on Ancestry
- 13,457 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,169 Census and Voter Lists
- 326 Military Records
- 1,077 Immigration Records
- 1,156 Member Trees
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Number of Safar families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Safar families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Safar census records
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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
Safar census records
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