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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Pronounced Pron. Fordham  [key]

Meaning & History

Habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Added 4/12/2016 by anonymous
Edited 6/10/2016 by LMS