Last name: CANHAM
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CANHAM : This last name is indexed 20,396 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CANHAM : English (East Anglia): habitational name from a place in Suffolk called Cavenham (of which this is a shortened form) from the genitive case of an unattested Old English byname Cāfna (from cāf ‘bold active’) + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
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