The beam Surname
beam Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- 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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