Sem Family History
Sem Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from any of about fifteen farms so
named, a variant of Seim. 181 from Norway in IGI.Slovenian: from the medieval personal name Sem, a
shortened form of Simon.Cambodian: unexplained.Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Saraswat Brahman) name of unknown meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sem Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sem families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sem families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sem families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sem census records
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Sem Family Origin
Sem Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Sem
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sem Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sem census records
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Sem Civil War Service Records
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