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cambridge Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced form of McCambridge.
  2. English: habitational name for someone from either of two places called Cambridge: one in Gloucestershire, the other in Cambridgeshire (the university city). Until the late 14th century the latter was known as Cantebrigie ‘bridge on the (river) Granta’, from a Celtic river name meaning ‘marshy river’. Under Norman influence Granta- became Cam-. It seems likely, therefore, that the surname derives mainly from the much smaller place in Gloucestershire, recorded as Cambrigga (1200–10), and named for the Cam, a Celtic river name meaning ‘crooked’, ‘winding’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cambridge Families in the US in 1920
Number of cambridge families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Threads: 25 - Messages: 105
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Cambridge in Tampa, Florida teburton1 1
Joan CAMBRIDGE (Margaret Joan Robinson) funkeegirl80 0
Indiana/Iowa Cambridges Daniel A. Cambridge 12
Searching 4 Elaine Cambridge pfried66 0
Cambridge from Hauxton, Cambridgeshire,UK LynneHoldsworth15 10
Cambridge/Bourner families - Dover fullwood146 0
Cambridge family in Greenbrier County, VA CAgee2801 25
Elizabeth Hoppler(?) Cambridge - Now what? AmySmith841 0
Arthur Cambridge married before 1839 AmySmith841 1
cambridge tree tammy cambridge 1
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