Beam Family History
Beam Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bem ‘tree; beam post piece of timber’ (Old English bēam) a term with various applications. It denoted the beam of a loom and was therefore in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a weaver. In others it was a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a post or tree or by a footbridge made from a tree trunk as in Beam Bridge in Dagenham Essex. Americanized form of German Boehm or sometimes of Baum .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022