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Origin Of The Surname Durham
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Meaning Of The Surname Durham
From the Town by the Hill Island
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Interesting
Facts About
Durham
Durham is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself is a mixture of Old English and Scandinavian, with the Old English element ‘dun’ meaning a hill, combined with the Scandinavian ‘holme’ referring to a small island. The original settlements of Durham would have been located next to a hill surrounded by water. |
Durham Statistics
Durham is the number 1424 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,582 share the surname Durham in the UK.
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