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birmingham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Birmingham in the West Midlands. In Domesday Book the name is already found as Bermingeham, but it seems likely that it was originally Beornmundingaham ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of (-inga-) Beornmund’, a personal name composed of the elements beorn ‘young man’, ‘warrior’ + mund ‘protection’. This name is well established in Ireland (see Bermingham).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The birmingham name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the birmingham family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of birmingham Families in the US in 1920
Number of birmingham families
 65-128
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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