Graham name - Meaning of Graham

Graham name - Meaning of Graham

Gender

Masculine

Lucky Number

3

Usage

Scottish, English

Pronounced

GRAY-əm, GRAM, GRAY-əm/GRAM

Graham Meaning

From a Scottish surname, originally derived from the English place name Grantham, which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham. A famous bearer was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone. Graham is a locational name, implying that the bearer of the name came from Grantham in Lincolnshire. The place name Grantham itself is derived from the Old English “grand”, which means "gravel", and “ham”, which means "homestead".

Graham Related Names
Variants: Gram, Graeme

Graham Celebrities
Graham Bond - musician, Graham Greene - author, Graham Horn - soccer player, Graham Kerr - chef, Graham Norton - actor, Graham Swift - author, Graham Brown - soccer player,