The burnham Surname
burnham Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of several places called
Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various
villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English
burna ‘stream’ + ham ‘homestead’. In the case of
Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English
hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named
from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr
‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the
springs’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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