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The farnham Surname

farnham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, including those in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + ham ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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farnham Family Facts

Distribution of farnham Families in the US in 1920
Number of farnham families
 78-153
 27-77		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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