Where Does the Ingraham Surname Come From?

Spelled Ingraham, the surname still points back to Ingram. At root, the name means “From the Norman personal name Ingelram”.

Heraldry and the Ingraham name

Arms linked to Ingram and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

How the spelling arose

Ingraham is built on the same root as Ingram, with the ending -ham. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Ingrams and Engram.

The 2010 census count for Ingraham in the United States was 6,248, good for rank 5,566. Get the complete Ingraham report, with a museum-style coat of arms.