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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : perhaps a variant of Wingham, a habitational name from Wingham, a place in Kent named from an unattested Old English personal name Wiga or Old English wīg ‘heathen temple’ + -inga- ‘of the family or followers of’ + hām ‘homestead’, i.e. ‘homestead of Wiga’s people’.

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