First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Grain
- English: Gray home
- German: Raven
First name variations: Gram, Graeme, Grahame, Graeham, Graehame, Grahem, Grahim, Grahime, Grahm, Graihame, Grayham, Greyham, Greyhame, Ingraham, Ingham, Ingrem, Ingrim, Gram, Ingram Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish and English: habitational name from Grantham in
Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as
Grantham, Grandham, and Granham). See also
Grantham.
- The surname Graham is now most common in Scotland and northern
Ireland. It was taken to Scotland at the beginning of the 12th century
by the Norman baron William de Graham, holder of the manor in
Lincolnshire, from whom many if not all modern bearers are probably
descended.
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