Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name of the same etymology as Newham. The middle -n- comes from the weak dative form, nēowan of Old English nēowe, originally used after a preposition. There are places named Newnham in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.