Derham Family History
Derham Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Dearham in Cumbria or Dyrham in
Gloucestershire, named from Old English deor ‘deer’ +
ham ‘settlement’, ‘homestead’, or hamm ‘enclosure
hemmed in by water’, ‘river meadow’. There are places in Norfolk
called East and West Dereham, which have the same etymology. However,
the present-day distribution of the surname suggests that they
probably did not contribute to the surname.Irish
(mainly Dublin, Drogheda, and Cork): of English origin, but MacLysaght
takes this to be a variant of Durham.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Derham Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Derham families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Derham families
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72 - 142 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Derham families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Derham Family Origin
Derham Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Derham
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Derham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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