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buckingham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from the former county seat of the county of Buckinghamshire, Old English Buccingahamm ‘water meadow (Old English hamm) of the people of (-inga-) Bucc(a)’.

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buckingham Family Facts

Distribution of buckingham Families in the US in 1920
Number of buckingham families
 70-138
 24-69
 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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