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bellingham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places called Bellingham, in Greater London (formerly in Kent) and Northumberland. The former is named with Old English Beringaham ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the followers of Be(o)ra’, a byname meaning ‘bear’; the latter seems to have been originally named as the ‘homestead of the dwellers at the bell’, from Old English belle used in a transferred sense of a bell-shaped hill.

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Distribution of bellingham Families in the US in 1920
Number of bellingham families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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