English (Devon): habitational name, primarily from Wakeham in
Devon, named from the Old English byname Waca (meaning
‘watchful’) + Old English ham ‘homestead’, and to a lesser
extent from either of two other places called Wakeham: one in Sussex,
which has the same etymology, and the other on the Isle of Portland in
Dorset, which is probably named from an Old English wacu
‘watch’, ‘wake’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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