Dictionary of Family Names

Origin of the Surname NEEDHAM.

NEEDHAM. From Needham, a market-town in Suffolk, England—the village of cattle; Sax., neat, Danish, nod, a herd, and ham, a village. In another sense it may denote the clean, fair town.

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