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The keim Surname

keim Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name kayem. This is an apotropaic name, given to a sickly child, based on the Hebrew adjective qayom ‘tough’, ‘enduring’.
  2. German (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg): from Middle High German kime ‘sprout’, ‘shoot’, ‘offspring’, sometimes used as a personal name, or from a pet form of Joachim.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of keim Families in the US in 1920
Number of keim families
 135-267
 46-134		 1-45
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