Wollam Family History

English (Shropshire and Lancashire): variant of the Devon surname Woolland perhaps a habitational name from Woolland in Dorset named from Old English wynne ‘pasture meadow’ + land ‘land’. Alternatively but less likely a topographic name from Middle English wough ‘bent crooked’ + land(e) lond(e) ‘land’ (Old English wōh + land) perhaps denoting a person who lived at or near a bend in a stream or river or for someone from any place so named such as Wollensbrook in Great Amwell (Hertfordshire).

This surname is rare in Britain. Americanized form of German Ulm.