Bams Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 2
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 2
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 2
Nottinghamshire 2
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Bams Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Bams family

Profession Census Frequency
Iron Ore Miner 1
House Keeper Domestic 1
General Labourer 1
Char Woman 1
Farm Labourer 1
Living On Her Own Means 1
Merchant Seaman 1
General Domestic Servant 1
Blacksmith 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Bams

Name Census Frequency
Mary Bams 18
Elizabeth Bams 13
John Bams 13
Sarah Bams 9
James Bams 7
Thomas Bams 5
Ann Bams 4
George Bams 4
Jane Bams 4
William Bams 4
Alfred Bams 3
Alice Bams 3
Eliza Bams 3
Ellen Bams 3
Joseph Bams 3
Albert Bams 2
Charles Bams 2
Clara Bams 2
Edith Bams 2
Ernest Bams 2
Esther Bams 2
Isabella Bams 2
Matilda Bams 2
Michael Bams 2
Richard Bams 2

Bams Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Bames 80% 2,565
2 Beams 80% 2,266
3 Beames 67% 1,950
4 Bums 75% 302
5 Bams 100% 161
6 Bims 75% 137
7 Bomes 60% 114

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The surname Bams is the 5th most popular variant of Bames.

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