Rahm Family History
- Rahm Name Meaning
- topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German ram(e) ‘end’, ‘target’, ‘mark’, or a habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Rhineland named with this word. from Middle High German, Middle Low German ram ‘soot’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith or charcoal burner, or a nickname for a dirty person. metonymic occupational name for a maker of frames (windows, looms, and the like), from Middle High German rame ‘stand’, ‘rack’, ‘frame’. (Rähm): variant spelling of Rehm.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 84,074 Historical Documents with Rahm on Ancestry
- 50,072 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,084 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,762 Military Records
- 2,901 Immigration Records
- 17,255 Member Trees
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Number of Rahm families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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