First name origin & meaning: Scandinavian: Home of the Danes First name variations: Denholme, Denham, Denby, Denim Last name origins & meanings:
- 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).
- English: habitational name from Denholme in West Yorkshire, so
named from Old English denu ‘valley’ + Old Norse holmr
‘water meadow’.
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