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elam Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name for someone from a place called Elham, in Kent, or a lost place of this name in Crayford, Kent. The first is derived from Old English ?l ‘eel’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’. There is also an Elam Grange in Bingley, West Yorkshire, but the current distribution of the name in the British Isles suggests that it did not contribute significantly to the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of elam Families in the US in 1920
Number of elam families
 91-179
 31-90		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Dickie Elam--name on quilt Endoftheharvest52 0
Who were parents of Robert Elam 1684-1753 wife Elizabeth Anne Bolling???? donmatson63 2
William Elam from Mansfield Louisiana lornaelam1 2
Leander Elam zanecox 0
Alfred M. Elam VESTER 9
Ulna Elam of Marlin, TX 1905 drbrownlee 0
YDNA Challenge to all lolene133 0
Earliest know Elam's to America GraciousStreet 0
Elam's of Kentucky and Ohio Nan 8
ELAM, JOHN (?-?) cantorjoeocho 0
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