English: habitational name from places called Bellingham, in
Greater London (formerly in Kent) and Northumberland. The former is
named with Old English Beringaham ‘homestead (Old English
ham) of the followers of Be(o)ra’, a byname meaning
‘bear’; the latter seems to have been originally named as the
‘homestead of the dwellers at the bell’, from Old English belle
used in a transferred sense of a bell-shaped hill.
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