as a Last Name
- 13,900
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Beam
Meaning & Origins
English: from Old English bēam ‘beam’, ‘post’, a term with various applications. It denoted the beam of a loom and was therefore in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a weaver. In others it was a topographic name for someone who lived by a post or tree, or by a footbridge made from a tree trunk.
| 2,268th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,900
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Beam per capita
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