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Bamber

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Bamber Bridge in Lancashire, probably named with Old English bēam ‘tree trunk’, ‘beam’ + brycg ‘bridge’.
  • German : nickname for a short fat person.

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