Dam Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

The name Dam is closely linked to Dahm. The family name meaning is “Short form of Adam”, the same as for Dahm.

• Other spellings include Damm, Dame and Daam.
• Without the “h” of Dahm, Dam is a simpler written form of the same name.
• Spain's INE counts 108 residents with Dam as first surname and 74 with it as second. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Dam with 3,186 bearers, at rank 10,114. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Dam coat of arms

There is no single Dam family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Research your Dam family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.