English: habitational name from Bloxham in Oxfordshire and Bloxholm
in Lincolnshire, both of which are recorded in Domesday Book as
Blochesham, from an unrecorded Old English byname Blocc
(presumably referring to a large, ungainly fellow; compare
Block 1) + Old English ham ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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