Last Name CHATHAM

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Meaning	Local: From a town in Kent, England, on the Medway, so named from the Saxon 'cyte,' a cottage, and ham, a village, signifying the village of cottages. A paragraph to the following effect went the round of the papers not many years since: Two attorneys in partnership had the name of the firm, "Catcham and Chetum," inscribed, in the usual manner, upon their office-door; but as the singularity and ominous juxta-position of the words led to many a coarse joke from passers-by, the men of law attempted to destroy, in part, the effect of the odd association, by the insertion of the initials of their Christian names, which happened to be Isaiah and Uriah; but this made the affair ten times worse, for the inscription then ran: " I. Catcham and U. Chetum!".

Origin	Anglo-saxon, Zimbabwean

Rank	7,565 (2000 US census)	7,548 (1990 US census)

Count	4,054 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

89.32%, or 3621 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
6.27%, or 254 total occurrences, as black,
1.04%, or 42 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.25%, or 10 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.43%, or 58 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.7%, or 69 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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