Cunningham Family History
Cunningham Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a district in Ayrshire, first
recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of
uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in
1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a
gradual assimilation to the English place-name element -ingham.Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic
Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a
personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name
Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cunningham
Name Distribution of Cunningham Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cunningham families
 1,074 - 2,145  359 - 1,073 |
 1 - 358  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cunningham families
|
1,200 - 2,397 401 - 1,199 |
1 - 400 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cunningham Family Origin
Cunningham Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cunningham Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cunningham Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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