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sams Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from a short form of Samuel.

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

Distribution of sams Families in the US in 1920
Number of sams families
 75-148
 26-74
 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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