Where Does the Dunnam Surname Come From?

Anyone researching Dunnam should also look under Dunham. The family name meaning is “Hill homestead”, the same as for Dunham.

Dunnam and Dunham

Dunnam writes “n” in place of the “h” found in Dunham, a typical scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Donham.

Surname statistics

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Dunnam with 2,005 bearers, at rank 14,799. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Dunnam family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

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