Tame Family History
Tame Name Meaning
English: habitational name primarily from Thame in Oxfordshire or the river Thame which flows through it but perhaps occasionally from one or more of the three English rivers named Tame in Staffordshire/Warwickshire Yorkshire and Yorkshire/Lancashire. The river names are probably all related to the Indo-European root tā- tə- ‘melt flow’. Thame in Oxfordshire takes its name from the river Thame.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022