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beam Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old English beam ‘beam’, ‘post’, a term with various applications. It denoted the beam of a loom and was therefore in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a weaver. In others it was a topographic name for someone who lived by a post or tree, or by a footbridge made from a tree trunk.
  2. Americanized form of German Boehm, or sometimes of Baum.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The beam name in History

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Distribution of beam Families in the US in 1920
Number of beam families
 138-274
 47-137		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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