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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, in part probably from places in Oxfordshire and Berkshire called Culham. The first is named with an Old English personal name Cūla + hamm ‘river meadow’; the Berkshire name is from Old English cyln ‘kiln’ + Old English hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’.
  • Scottish : reduced form of McCollum.

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