The bonham Surname
bonham Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- Americanized form of French Bonhomme.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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