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barnum Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places called Barnham, for example in Norfolk, Suffolk, and West Sussex. They are probably all named with the Old English byname Beorn(a) (see Barnes 2) or Old English beorn ‘warrior’ + ham ‘homestead’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barnum Families in the US in 1920
Number of barnum families
 94-185
 32-93		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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