Means Family History
Means Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of McMeans.English: habitational
names from East and West Meon in Hampshire, which take their names from
the Meon river. The word is Celtic but of uncertain meaning, possibly
‘swift one’.nickname from Middle English mene ‘inferior in
rank’, ‘of low degree’ (from Old English gem?ne), or from
Middle English mene ‘moderate in behaviour’ (from Old French
mëen, mean).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Means
Name Distribution of Means Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Means families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Means families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Means census records
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Means Family Origin
Means Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Means Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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