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sames Name Meaning and History

  1. English: unexplained.
  2. German: possibly from a Germanic stem sam used of a personal name of unknown meaning.

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Distribution of sames Families in the US in 1920
Number of sames families
 28-54
 10-27
 1-9
 0
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