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braham Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from either of two places called Braham, in Cambridgeshire and West Yorkshire, both probably named with Old English brom ‘broom’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘flood plain’, ‘water meadow’.
  2. Jewish: reduced variant of Abraham.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of braham Families in the US in 1920
Number of braham families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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