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birmingham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Birmingham in the West Midlands. In Domesday Book the name is already found as Bermingeham, but it seems likely that it was originally Beornmundingaham ‘homestead (Old English ham) of the people of (-inga-) Beornmund’, a personal name composed of the elements beorn ‘young man’, ‘warrior’ + mund ‘protection’. This name is well established in Ireland (see Bermingham).

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

Distribution of birmingham Families in the US in 1920
Number of birmingham families
 65-128
 22-64
 1-21
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Birminghams/Berminghams in New York Karen Mulikey 11
James BIRMINGHAM of Oil City, PA & Jamestown, NY WilliamEWatson42 0
BIRMINGHAM Cynthia L 1956-1998 t42Moore 0
BIRMINGHAM Judith Ann GRANGER and Mike t42Moore 0
Re:Birmingham/Bermingham Family Karen Mulikey 1
Thomas Birmingham ellenbirmingham 6
Herbert Birmingham kjbirmingham1 0
Edward Birmingham of NJ patmontero25 0
Edward Birmingham of NJ patmontero25 0
Samuel Birmingham of Pennsylvania Sherri Webber 3
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