as a Last Name
- 4,381
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Fordham
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the places in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Norfolk named Fordham, from Old English ford ‘ford’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
| 6,688th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,381
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Fordham per capita
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