English: habitational name for someone from Upham in Hampshire or
from minor places so named in Devon and Wiltshire. The first is named
with Old English upp ‘upper’ + ham ‘homestead’ or
hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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