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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Isham, from the river name Ise (of Celtic origin) + Old English hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘promontory’ or ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

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