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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper, from Middle High German seim ‘honey’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of ten or more farms so named, notably on the west coast of Norway, named with Old Norse Sæheimr, a compound of sær ‘sea’ + heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.

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