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The putnam Surname

putnam Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English ham ‘homestead’.

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

Distribution of putnam Families in the US in 1920
Number of putnam families
 210-417
 71-209		 1-70
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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