Frequency: (2857)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Buckinghamshire (near Uxbridge) and two in Suffolk, which are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + hām ‘homestead’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
