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dunham Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly Norfolk): habitational name from any of several places called Dunham, of which one is in Norfolk. Most are named from Old English dun ‘hill’ + ham ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in Domesday Book as Duneham and this too may be a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna.

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Distribution of dunham Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunham families
 277-552
 93-276		 1-92
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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