First name origins & meanings:
- Hebrew: Highlands
- Hebrew: Highlands
- Hebrew: Tree
First name variations: Eilon, Elan, Ilon, Ilan Last name origin & meaning: English: habitational name for someone from a place called Elham,
in Kent, or a lost place of this name in Crayford, Kent. The first is
derived from Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + hām
‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’. There is
also an Elam Grange in Bingley, West Yorkshire, but the current
distribution of the name in the British Isles suggests that it did not
contribute significantly to the surname. This name appears in the following lists:
Biblical Names,
Mountains and Valleys,
Stars and Planets
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