Bonham Family History
Bonham Name Meaning
English: nickname from Old French bon homme (Latin
bonus homo). This had two senses relevant to surname formation;
partly it had the literal meaning ‘good man’, and partly it came to
mean ‘peasant farmer’.Americanized form of French
Bonhomme.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bonham Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bonham families
 57 - 111  20 - 56 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bonham families
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94 - 186 32 - 93 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bonham families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bonham Family Origin
Bonham Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bonham
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Bonham Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Bonham Civil War Service Records
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