Beame Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Whether you spell it Beame or Beam, the story begins in the same place. The family name meaning is “Tree, post”, the same as for Beam. The extra “e” in Beame is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Beahm.

Arms linked to Beam and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Beame family name pack.