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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Isham. The surname is no longer found in the U.K. In the U.S. it occurs chiefly in MD.
  • The name is first recorded in Northamton Co., VA, when Daniel Esham came over as an indentured servant in 1651.

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