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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from either of the places called Warham, in Herefordshire and Norfolk, or from Wareham in Dorset. All are named with Old English wær ‘weir’ + either hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

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