Barham as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Barham

What is the meaning of the name Barham ?

The baby name Barham is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced BAR-əm.

Barham is English in Origin.

Barham is an English habitational surname now sometimes used as a given name. Its source is Old English place-naming: for most villages called Barham, the elements are beorg, later reduced in unstressed compounds, hill, and hām, homestead or estate. The Kentish place is different, recorded as Bioraham in 799 and Bercheham in Domesday Book, and appears to contain an unattested byname Biora or Beora, formed from bera, bear, plus hām.

As a family name, Barham belongs to the Norman-period documentary world of de plus place-name forms, although the places themselves are Anglo-Saxon. Warine de Berham held land in Kent in 1203, and medieval spellings include Bereham, Berham, and Bernham. The surname remained especially associated with Kent and Sussex, later appearing in Virginia by the 1620s and in Australian and New Zealand records during nineteenth-century migration. Modern use as a first name is rare and mainly surname-style.