Last name: BENTHAM
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BENTHAM : This last name is indexed 20,942 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BENTHAM : English: habitational name from any of various places so named but primarily from Bentham in Yorkshire or Gloucestershire; named from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + hām ‘homestead estate’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
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