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The lam Surname

lam Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : variant of Lin 1.
  2. Chinese : variant of Lan.
  3. Vietnamese (Lâm): unexplained.
  4. Dutch and North German: from a short form of the personal name Lambert.
  5. Danish: nickname for a gentle person, from Old Norse lamb ‘lamb’, or possibly for a lame man, Old Norse lami.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The lam name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the lam family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of lam Families in the US in 1920
Number of lam families
 40-77
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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