Buckham Family History
Buckham Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Buckholm formerly Buckham in Melrose parish Roxburghshire. The placename probably comes from Old English bucca ‘buck; male deer or he-goat’ + hamm ‘land enclosed on three sides by a river’. The place itself is beside Gala Water.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022