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The ohm Surname

ohm Name Meaning and History

  1. North German (also Öhm): kinship name from Middle Low German om ‘maternal uncle’, ‘relative’, which was used as a respectful form of address for older people. Compare Neve.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from farmsteads on the west coast named Om or Åm, from Old Norse áum, dative plural of á ‘small river’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ohm Families in the US in 1920
Number of ohm families
 21-40
 8-20
 1-7
 0
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