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Lam family history

The Lam surname: Cho Lon, the Chinese quarter of Saigon

Surnames

The Lam Surname: Origin, Meaning and History

Lam means forest, from the Chinese character 林. Two peoples share one American surname: Vietnamese Lâm, and the Cantonese Lam of Guangdong and Hong Kong.

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