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GRAHAM

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There are approximately 88,316 people named Graham in the UK. That makes it the 79th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,398 are named Graham.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

Scotland

Language of origin

Gaelic

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

Celtic
From given name or forename

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The Graham surname in historical dictionaries

GRAHAM. The name h;>s always been written interchangeably with Gramme — the Scottish oi'thography. The earliest traceable ancestor, (for we reject of course the fifth-century hero Greme — See Gramie,) is AVilliam de GRAHA,\r, wlio settled in Scotland early in the XII. century. The surname therefore is clearly local, and from its termination undoubtedly English. The onlv place in S. Britain of the name which we find is Graham, near Kesteveu in Lincolnshire. H.R., vol. i., page 288.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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