Heim Family History
Heim Name Meaning
South German: from the Germanic personal name
Haimo.Jewish
(Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Khayim, from
Hebrew chayim ‘life’.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Heim
Name Distribution of Heim Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heim families
 153 - 303  52 - 152 |
 1 - 51  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Heim families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Heim last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heim census records
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Heim Family Origin
Heim Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Heim
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Heim Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Heim census records
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Heim Civil War Service Records
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