Rotherham
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Rotherham
Frequency: (126)
(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 Rotherham in South Yorkshire, named as ‘homestead or village (Old English hām) on the river Rother’, a Celtic river name meaning ‘chief river’.
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