Given name & surname

Dunham

“a brown-haired man”

Dunham is used as a given name and a surname. One Celtic interpretation is “a brown-haired man.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

One Celtic interpretation is “a brown-haired man.”

Where it comes from

An origin associated with this spelling is Celtic.

How it developed

From Old English dūn (“hill”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dunham’s family of names

In English usage, Dunham as a surname has a related form in DONHAM.

Walk Dunham’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

People named Dunham

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Similar names

If you love Dunham, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Celtic

Dubthach

“black”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Irish or Scottish Gaelic · Saints

Duncan

“a dark warrior”

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>99% boys

Celtic

Dubra

“dark, water”

No U.S. birth series

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Celtic

Duβnowal

Duβnowal is a masculine given name from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Proto-Brythonic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Celtic

Duβnoɣen

Duβnoɣen is a masculine given name from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Proto-Brythonic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Celtic · Royal

Dufenal

“prince/chief of the world”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Celtic

Oldham

“old”

No U.S. birth series

67% boys · 33% girls

Celtic

Dunaldur

Dunaldur is a masculine given name from Old Irish, ultimately from Proto-Celtic. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Dunham’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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