Bircham

English

Etymology

From Old English bierċe (“birch”) + hām (“homestead; village”).

Proper noun

Bircham (countable and uncountable, plural Birchams)

1. A civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England.
2. A hamlet in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bircham is the 10582^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 556 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bircham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162.