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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Fulham, a habitational name from Fulham, now part of Greater London, recorded in Domesday Book as Fuleham, from an Old English personal name Fulla + hamm ‘land in a river bend’. Both forms of the name have been recorded in Ireland, in County Dublin, since the 13th century.

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