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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Father of a multitude

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Braham, in Cambridgeshire and West Yorkshire, both probably named with Old English brōm ‘broom’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘flood plain’, ‘water meadow’.
  • Jewish : reduced variant of Abraham.

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