Markam Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Markam is how some branches of the Markham family came to write their name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Boundary homestead”.

Markam drops the “h” of Markham, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

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