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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in North Yorkshire and Gloucestershire, named Bentham, from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

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