Lym 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 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 3
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 2
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 2
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 5
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 3
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

Lym Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Lym family

Profession Census Frequency
Journeyman Butcher 1
Cotton Winder 1
Manager Cotton Power Looms 1
Musician 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
Silk Dyer 1
Saddler 1
Scholar 1
Carpenter 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Lym

Name Census Frequency
John Lym 18
William Lym 16
Mary Lym 14
Ann Lym 8
Thomas Lym 8
Jane Lym 6
Rebecca Lym 5
Charles Lym 4
Ellen Lym 4
Hannah Lym 4
Alice Lym 3
Edward Lym 3
Elizabeth Lym 3
George Lym 3
Margaret Lym 3
Sarah Lym 3
Andrew Lym 2
Anne Lym 2
Edith Lym 2
Eliza Lym 2
Emily Lym 2
Emma Lym 2
Frederick Lym 2
Hugh Lym 2
James Lym 2

Lym Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Limb 50% 4,949
2 Lyme 75% 984
3 Lymm 75% 338
4 Limm 50% 337
5 Lym 100% 178
6 Lim 67% 115

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The surname Lym is the 5th most popular variant of Limb.

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