The English surname Milam is an habitational name from Mill Ham, Devon, or Millham Farm in Cornwall and Hereford. The name may also be of locational origin from the village of Mileham in the county of Norfolk. Early examples of the recordings include Thomas Myleham of North Walsham, Norfolk on November 13th 1593, and in the diocese of Greater London, Barbary Millom at St Botolphs Bishopgate on October 6th 1622, and Alice Mealham, who married Richard Stark, at St Martins in the Field, Westminster, on February 26th 1823.