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Origin Of The Surname Oldham
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Meaning Of The Surname Oldham
From The Old Lands
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Interesting
Facts About
Oldham
Oldham is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘eold’ meaning old combined with the Norse ‘holmr’ to mean ‘the old lands’. |
Oldham Statistics
Oldham is the number 1269 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,048 share the surname Oldham in the UK.
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