Last name: GRANTHAM
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GRANTHAM : This last name is indexed 36,767 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GRANTHAM : English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English hām ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham.
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