Cham Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 4
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 4
Leicestershire 1
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 3
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Cham Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cham family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 2
Domestic Servant 1
Char Woman 1
Hat Trimmer 1
Living On His Own Means 1
Barman 1
Agricultural Labourer 1
General Labourer 1
Hawker 1
Railway Excavator 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cham

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Cham 17
Mary Cham 10
William Cham 10
Jane Cham 7
John Cham 7
Thomas Cham 6
George Cham 5
James Cham 5
Albert Cham 4
Arthur Cham 4
Edgar Cham 4
Hannah Cham 4
Robert Cham 4
Charlotte Cham 3
Henry Cham 3
Maud Cham 3
Samuel Cham 3
Susanna Cham 3
Alice Cham 2
Charles Cham 2
Edward Cham 2
Eliza Cham 2
Emma Cham 2
Harriet Cham 2
Kathleen Cham 2

Cham Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Chim 75% 340
2 Chum 75% 246
3 Coham 80% 229
4 Cham 100% 165

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The surname Cham is the 4th most popular variant of Chim.

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