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Hi,
I have three generations of Pioma's in my family. This is my grandmothers first name, her grandmothers first name, and her mothers first name. Can anyone give me insight to its meaning or origin? I have been searching endlessly without any luck. We are primarily an English/Irish/German family. Would this have any relation to native americans?
Thanks,
Zach
I have three generations of Pioma's in my family. This is my grandmothers first name, her grandmothers first name, and her mothers first name. Can anyone give me insight to its meaning or origin? I have been searching endlessly without any luck. We are primarily an English/Irish/German family. Would this have any relation to native americans?
Thanks,
Zach
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This is a very, very rare name. About the only records of it in Ancestry Library are of women in the Hamilton family of Pennsylvania. I assume that is the family you are descended from. When a name is this rare, the best guess is that the parents of the original name bearer simply created it out of their own imagination.
It's unlikely to have any connection with Native Americans because the only possible Native American connection is the middle name of a man in the Hualapai tribe in Arizona, and looking at other census records this is almost surely a misprint for Piema in that case.
It's unlikely to have any connection with Native Americans because the only possible Native American connection is the middle name of a man in the Hualapai tribe in Arizona, and looking at other census records this is almost surely a misprint for Piema in that case.
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