See also: East Ham

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old English ēast (east) + hām (homestead) or hamm (river meadow).

Proper noun

edit

Eastham (countable and uncountable, plural Easthams)

  1. A placename
    1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ358805).
      • 1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488:
        At Ellesmere Port the railway ends, but the canal continues a little farther to Eastham, giving shipping an outlet to the River Mersey.
    2. A village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England.
    3. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
  2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Coordinate terms

edit

Derived terms

edit

Statistics

edit
  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Eastham is the 13456th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2263 individuals. Eastham is most common among White (93.02%) individuals.

Further reading

edit

Anagrams

edit