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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Carham, a habitational name from a place so called in Northumbria, named with Old English carrum ‘(at the) rocks’, dative plural of carr ‘rock’.
  • Spanish (and Portuguese) : unexplained.

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