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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Dockham in Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, named in Old English with docce ‘dock’ (the plant) + hamm ‘enclosure’, ‘water meadow’. This surname has died out in England.

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