Frequency: (149)
(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 the various places, for example in Northumbria and North Yorkshire, so named from Old English nēowe ‘new’ + hām ‘homestead’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
