Putnam Family History
Putnam Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Putnam
Name Distribution of Putnam Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Putnam families
 56 - 110  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Putnam Family Origin
Putnam Emigration Information (US)
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Putnam Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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