Family name origins & meanings
- Vietnamese ({D-}àm) : unexplained.
- Other Southeast Asian : unexplained.
- Dutch, Swedish, and Danish : topographic name for someone living by a dam or pond (dam). Compare Dutch Van Dam.
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