Buckenham

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Bucknam

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bucca + hām (“homestead”).

Proper noun

Buckenham (countable and uncountable, plural Buckenhams)

1. A small village in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3505)
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Buckenham is the 8651^st most common surname in England, belonging to 728 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Buckenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244.
• Forebears