Lamm Family History
- Lamm Name Meaning
- English and German: from Middle English lamb, Middle High German lamp ‘lamb’; a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. As a German name particularly, it may also have been a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of the paschal lamb. English: from a short form of the personal name Lambert.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 229,769 Historical Documents with Lamm on Ancestry
- 77,030 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,341 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,098 Military Records
- 4,265 Immigration Records
- 119,035 Member Trees
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Number of Lamm families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lamm families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lamm census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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