Tanabe Family History
- Tanabe Name Meaning
- Japanese: usually written with characters meaning ‘side of the rice paddy’; it is found mostly in western Japan. The ancient pronunciation was Tanobe and meant ‘rice paddy guild’, denoting a group charged with care of the emperor’s fields. The ancient Tanabe of Kawachi (presently part of Nara prefecture) claimed descent from emperors of the Chinese Han dynasty (206 bc–ad 220). The surname is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,018 Historical Documents with Tanabe on Ancestry
- 3,406 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,802 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,095 Military Records
- 5,210 Immigration Records
- 505 Member Trees
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Number of Tanabe families
 19 - 35  7 - 18 |
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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
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