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First name origin & meaning:

Scandinavian: Home of the Danes

First name variations: Denholme, Denham, Denby, Denim

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a place in southern Scotland near Hawick, so named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ (see Holme 2).
  2. English: habitational name from Denholme in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + Old Norse holmr ‘water meadow’.