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oldham Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from the place in Lancashire, so named from Middle English ald, old ‘old’ + holm ‘island’, ‘dry land in a fen’, ‘promontory’.
  2. topographic name from Old English (e)ald ‘old’ + hamm ‘water meadow’, ‘low-lying land by a river’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of oldham Families in the US in 1920
Number of oldham families
 112-222
 38-111		 1-37
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