The durham Surname
durham Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Durham, a city in northeastern
England, named from Old English dun ‘hill’ (see Down
1) + Old Norse holmr ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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