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lamb Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English lamb, a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm.
  2. English: from a short form of the personal name Lambert.
  3. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: ‘The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O’Loan itself.’
  4. Possibly also a translation of French agneau.

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

Distribution of lamb Families in the US in 1920
Number of lamb families
 397-792
 133-396		 1-132
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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