Helm Family History
Helm Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): topographic name for someone who
lived by or worked at a rough temporary shelter for animals, Middle
English helm (Old Norse hjalmr, related to the Old
English and Old High German words in 2 below), or a habitational name
from a minor place named Helm or Helme from this word, as for example
in County Durham, Northumberland, and West Yorkshire.English,
German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of helmets,
from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch helm.German and Dutch: from a medieval personal name, a short
form of any of the various compound names formed with helm
‘helmet’. Compare, e.g., Helmbrecht.Scottish: habitational
name from Helme in Roxburghshire (Borders).Jewish
(Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Helm ‘helmet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Helm
Name Distribution of Helm Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Helm families
 106 - 210  36 - 105 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Helm families
|
335 - 667 112 - 334 |
1 - 111 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Helm families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Helm census records
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Helm Family Origin
Helm Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Helm
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Helm Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Helm census records
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Helm Civil War Service Records
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