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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Turnham in East Yorkshire or Turnham Green in West London, both of which are so named from an Old English trun ‘circular’, probably denoting a U-shaped bend in a river, + hamm ‘water meadow’ or hām ‘homestead’.

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