Given name & surname

Pham

Pham is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in English, French, and Czech.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Pham comes from Vietnamese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Vietnamese Phạm.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Pham’s family of names

In English usage, Pham as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Phạm.

Walk Pham’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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