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The needham Surname

needham Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Derbyshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, so named from Old English ned ‘need’, ‘hardship’ + ham ‘homestead’, i.e. a place that provided a poor living.
  2. Irish (County Mayo): English surname adopted as an equivalent of Irish Ó Niadh (see Nee).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of needham Families in the US in 1920
Number of needham families
 80-157
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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needhams in derbyshire england lyn_helps 35
Needham jknapp4616 5
needham family RUTHPINDER 0
Elias Wells Needham Christina Floyd 1
LOOKING FOR BOOK Donna 3
Daniel J. Needham & Anne Agnes Ford (Scranton,PA.) Gerry (Smith)Meade 1
Elias Needham Daisy Needham 4
needham line from nc,tn, in. have the line for those intrested jeffers3880 8
Annie Beatrice Needham Nicole Hickle 4
Elizabeth Needham/Oldham Eng? gd4sumthn 1
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