Last Name BUCKINGHAM

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Meaning	Local: Of Buckingham. Local: A shire and town in England, and so called either from 'Bucen,' beechen, and 'ham,' a village, from the abundance of beech-trees growing there, or from the Saxon 'bucca,' deer - the deer-village.

Origin	English, Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Irish, Austrian

Rank	4,199 (2000 US census)	4,272 (1990 US census)

Count	7,829 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

86.95%, or 6807 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
8.88%, or 695 total occurrences, as black,
0.65%, or 51 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.51%, or 40 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.47%, or 115 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.55%, or 121 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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