Needham Name Meaning: Habitational for any one of a number of places with this name i.e Suffolk. Old English ned 'hardship' + ham 'homestead'.
Usually implied a place of 'hardship' & 'poor living'.
Discover how your Needham ancestors earned their living and spread across the country. Find out more about your family history by using the Free Search box.Bedfordshire | 3 |
Buckinghamshire | 10 |
Berkshire | 13 |
Cambridgeshire | 29 |
Channel Islands | 0 |
Cheshire | 195 |
Cornwall | 5 |
Cumberland | 18 |
Derbyshire | 580 |
Devon | 19 |
Dorset | 0 |
Durham | 113 |
Essex | 42 |
Gloucestershire | 23 |
Hampshire | 29 |
Herefordshire | 6 |
Hertfordshire | 0 |
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) | 52 |
Isle of Man | 0 |
Kent | 30 |
Lancashire | 1,116 |
Leicestershire | 460 |
Lincolnshire | 444 |
London | 437 |
Middlesex | 12 |
Northumberland | 15 |
Norfolk | 15 |
Northamptonshire | 33 |
Nottinghamshire | 397 |
Oxfordshire | 2 |
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) | 52 |
Shropshire | 18 |
Suffolk | 4 |
Somerset | 17 |
Surrey | 11 |
Sussex | 15 |
Staffordshire | 99 |
Warwickshire | 59 |
Westmorland | 2 |
Wiltshire | 0 |
Worcestershire | 33 |
Yorkshire | 1,125 |
Anglesey | 0 |
Brecknockshire | 0 |
Cardiganshire | 1 |
Carnarvonshire | 5 |
Carmarthenshire | 0 |
Denbighshire | 18 |
Flintshire | 10 |
Glamorgan | 6 |
Merionethshire | 0 |
Montgomeryshire | 0 |
Monmouthshire | 25 |
Pembrokeshire | 1 |
Radnorshire | 0 |
Profession | Census Frequency |
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Scholar | 982 |
Coal Miner | 91 |
General Labourer | 75 |
Domestic Servant | 61 |
Agricultural Labourer | 54 |
Farmer | 51 |
Dress Maker | 44 |
Cotton Weaver | 39 |
Labourer | 38 |
Living On Own Means | 36 |
General Servant | 31 |
Living On Her Own Means | 27 |
General Servant Domestic | 27 |
House Keeper | 25 |
Farm Labourer | 23 |
Cotton Piecer | 22 |
Cotton Operative | 20 |
Cotton Spinner | 20 |
Butcher | 17 |
General Domestic Servant | 17 |
Grocer | 16 |
Laundress | 15 |
Tailor | 14 |
Carter | 12 |
Carpenter | 11 |
Name | Census Frequency |
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Mary Needham | 3,270 |
John Needham | 2,927 |
William Needham | 2,651 |
Elizabeth Needham | 1,796 |
Sarah Needham | 1,785 |
George Needham | 1,731 |
Thomas Needham | 1,645 |
James Needham | 1,414 |
Joseph Needham | 1,253 |
Ann Needham | 1,168 |
Charles Needham | 793 |
Hannah Needham | 707 |
Jane Needham | 676 |
Annie Needham | 638 |
Alice Needham | 610 |
Henry Needham | 543 |
Samuel Needham | 525 |
Ellen Needham | 522 |
Emma Needham | 510 |
Eliza Needham | 496 |
Robert Needham | 479 |
Martha Needham | 472 |
Arthur Needham | 387 |
Edward Needham | 361 |
Margaret Needham | 361 |