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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire and Norfolk named Bradenham, from Old English brād (dative -an) ‘broad’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

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