Beahm History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England
Ireland

The Anglo-Saxon name Beahm comes from when the family resided near a mountain. This name was brought to England by the Normans, and is a corruption of the Norman French name Beaumont, which means beautiful mountain.1

"In former times, when mead or methlegn was a favourite beverage, the number of bees kept in England must have been much larger than now. Bee-parlts, or enclosures, exist in several parts of the country, though now appropriated to other uses. The keeper of such a park was called Custos Apium-"keeper of the bees"-whence Beeman. " 2

Early Origins of the Beahm family

The surname Beahm was first found in Suffolk, where R. Benum was recorded in the Subsidy Rolls in 1283. Later William le Bemon was found in Lancashire in 1324. 3

Early History of the Beahm family

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Beahm Spelling Variations

The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore,spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Beahm has been recorded under many different variations, including Beman, Beeman, Bemon, Beemon, Bayman, Baymon and many more.

Early Notables of the Beahm family

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Beahm Ranking

In the United States, the name Beahm is the 11,410^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 4

Migration of the Beahm family

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Beahm or a variant listed above: John Beman who arrived in Virginia in 1623 and William Beman in Virginia in 1774.

Contemporary Notables of the name Beahm (post 1700) +

George Beahm, American author best known for the Stephen King Companion which he first published in 1989
Isaac Newton Harvey Beahm (1859-1950), American academic, President of Elizabethtown College, in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania (1900-1901) and (1904-1909)
Jan Paul Beahm (1958-1980), better known by his stage name Darby Crash, an American punk rock vocalist who co-founded the punk rock band the Germs

Citations +

Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/