Buckenham
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (surname): Bucknam
Etymology[edit]
From the Old English personal name Bucca + hām (“homestead”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Buckenham (countable and uncountable, plural Buckenhams)
- A small village in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3505)
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Buckenham is the 8651st most common surname in England, belonging to 728 individuals.
References[edit]
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Buckenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244.
- Forebears