Lima 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 1
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 1
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

Lima Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Lima family

Profession Census Frequency
Miller 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Lima

Name Census Frequency
Alice Lima 6
Arthur Lima 5
Mary Lima 5
Elizabeth Lima 4
Frederick Lima 4
Joseph Lima 4
Leslie Lima 3
Thomas Lima 3
Albinia Lima 2
Bernard Lima 2
Edmund Lima 2
Ellen Lima 2
Frank Lima 2
Mercy Lima 2
Sarah Lima 2
Theodore Lima 2
Vincent Lima 2
Albert Lima 1
Alexandera Lima 1
Ann Lima 1
Anna Lima 1
Anne Lima 1
Arabella Lima 1
Armando Lima 1
Augusta Lima 1

Lima Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Elam 25% 3,140
2 Lame 50% 1,496
3 Loom 25% 999
4 Leam 25% 848
5 Lome 50% 450
6 Lime 75% 368
7 Lum 50% 360
8 Loam 25% 327
9 Loome 40% 324
10 Elm 25% 299
11 Lam 50% 290
12 Lem 50% 142
13 Elme 25% 128
14 Alum 25% 116
15 Lim 75% 115
16 Alma 50% 107
17 Lima 100% 101

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The surname Lima is the 17th most popular variant of Elam.

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