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harm Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Old English hearm ‘evil’, ‘hurt’, ‘injury’.
  2. English and North German: from a short form of Harman, Hermann.
  3. South German: nickname from Middle High German harm ‘ermine’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of harm Families in the US in 1920
Number of harm families
 17-31
 6-16
 1-5
 0
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