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heim Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: from the Germanic personal name Haimo. Compare English Hammond
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Khayim, from Hebrew chayim ‘life’.
  3. Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Heim, from Old Norse heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, or in some cases a more recent ornamental formation from heim ‘home’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of heim Families in the US in 1920
Number of heim families
 153-303
 52-152		 1-51
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 154 - Messages: 382
ThreadAuthorReplies
Heim from Evansville IN Mary Moeller 3
Martin Heim of Brown County, WI LSimons5841 8
Elizabeth Heim carolm9 1
John Heim 1842-44 Austria to PA KathyAnneW 4
Heim Family - Indiana and California Emily Carnahan 16
HEIM HISTORY LOST LUCY HEIM-MANNING 2
Mary Anna Heim 1898 mrollheiser2 0
John HEIM, Austria, Germany, Pennsylvania Vicki Sue Kohr 6
Barbara Elizabeth, William/ Jefferson or Clarion PA. Help!!! Gretta 4
Anton Heim? heimsmith 0
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