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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla’s or Byrla’s people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla’s people’.

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