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The bonham Surname

bonham Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Old French bon homme (Latin bonus homo). This had two senses relevant to surname formation; partly it had the literal meaning ‘good man’, and partly it came to mean ‘peasant farmer’.
  2. Americanized form of French Bonhomme.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bonham Families in the US in 1920
Number of bonham families
 57-111
 20-56		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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