It is Bonham..does anyone know?
2007-03-11 14:47:03 · 6 answers · asked by RKO 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Sounds Irish to me.
2007-03-11 14:48:51 · answer #1 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your surname is a very popular English (British) name. The drummer of the rock group Led Zeppelin's name was John Bonham.
2007-03-11 21:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
England
2007-03-11 21:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This site says it's English...but is from the Old French
English: nickname from Old French bon homme (Latin bonus homo). This had two senses relevant to surname formation; partly it had the literal meaning ‘good man’, and partly it came to mean ‘peasant farmer’.
http://landing.ancestry.com/learn/clues/fact.aspx?html=freetrial&fid=10&sourcecode=17397&ln=bonham&submit.x=22&submit.y=9&o_xid=0031936496&o_lid=0031936496&o_xt=40654954
2007-03-11 22:55:29 · answer #4 · answered by tichur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like British possibly Manchester England. that or Mobile Alabama
2007-03-11 21:59:02 · answer #5 · answered by BOB H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm gonna guess one of the two:
1) French - Bon ("Good") Ham ("shortened version of male which is 'homme', but loosely translates to the same)
2) German - It just kinda sounds German lol
2007-03-11 21:50:55 · answer #6 · answered by MattH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋