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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Dalham, one in Suffolk and one in Kent, both named from Old English dæl ‘valley’ + hām ‘settlement’, ‘homestead’, or from Daleham in Sussex, which is named from Old English dæl ‘valley’ + Old English hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, ‘meadow’.

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