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arms Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Harms.
  2. German: variant of Armes 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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arms Family Facts

Distribution of arms Families in the US in 1920
Number of arms families
 34-66
 12-33		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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