Subscribe >
Help
Member Login
Username Password (Forgot?)
Look up another surname
The cunningham Surname

cunningham Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a district in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English place-name element -ingham.
  2. Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Learn the meaning and history of your first name
Share this page with friends and family

The cunningham name in History

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

cunningham Family Facts

Are you a Facebook user? Add cunningham family facts to your Facebook profile.
Distribution of cunningham Families in the US in 1920
Number of cunningham families
 930-1858
 311-929		 1-310
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

Click on a state to view cunningham census records

Year

How is this helpful?

  • You can decide where (in which states) to start searching for cunningham records.
  • You can see how cunningham families moved over time by selecting different Census years.

What do I do next?

The information for this map came from Ancestry.com’s US Federal Census Collection.
  • Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, residence and occupation.
  • Click here to search cunningham census records.

More resources for your cunningham family history

Start your FREE family tree. We'll start searching.

Enter a few simple facts about your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more.

Begin your family tree with your name:


Member Connections

More Tools and Resources