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Surname Etymology and Meaning of FARNHAM

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(origin: Local) From a town in Surrey, England, "so called from the Saxon Fearn, fern, and ham, a habitation or village--the village in the place overgrown with fern."

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

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’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)