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perham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places (for example those in Suffolk and Sussex now called Parham), originally named with the Old English elements peru ‘pear’ + ham ‘homestead’.

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Distribution of perham Families in the US in 1840
Number of perham families
 12-22
 5-11
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1840 US Federal Census records

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