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The eames Surname

eames Name Meaning and History

  1. probably from the possessive case of the Middle English word eam ‘uncle’, denoting a retainer in the household of the uncle of some important local person.
  2. possibly also a variant of Ames.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of eames Families in the US in 1920
Number of eames families
 65-127
 22-64		 1-21
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