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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, perhaps from a place in Norfolk named Bridgham, from Old English brycg ‘bridge’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, or from Bridgeham Grange in Surrey, which probably has the same origin.

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