Densham

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Densham Denshams

Etymology

Probably a habitational surname from a minor place in Woolfardisworthy, Devon, recorded as Denewoldesham in the XIII century, named with the Old English personal name Deneweald + -s- + hām (“homestead”).

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