Last name: GORHAM
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GORHAM : This last name is indexed 54,174 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GORHAM : 1: English (Kent and Suffolk): habitational name from Gorham Wood in Bicknor (Kent) so named from Old English gāra ‘triangular piece of land’ + hām ‘homestead’.2: English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gorron in Mayenne (France).
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