Given name & surname
Gresham
“from the grazing land”
Gresham is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the grazing land.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the grazing land.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gresham through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 165
- 165 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,134 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,134 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 227 as a first name in 2020; 10,740 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gresham’s family of names
Gresham has a related form in Greshem. Gresham has a related form in Greshim. Gresham has a related form in Greshom.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Grishamvariant
- Grishumvariant
- Grishomvariant
- Grishymvariant
- Grishimvariant
- Grishemvariant
- Greshumvariant
- Greshomvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gresham
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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