Last Name NEEDHAM

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Meaning	Local: Of Needham, a parish in county Norfolk; a market-town in county Suffolk; an estate in county Derby, from which place Earl Kilmorey's family took their name. Local: From 'Needham,' a market-town in Suffolk, England - the village of cattle; Saxon, 'neat,' Danish, 'nod,' a herd, and 'ham,' a village. In another sense it may denote the clean, fair town.

Origin	English, Irish, Falkland, Zimbabwean

Rank	3,074 (2000 US census)	2,969 (1990 US census)

Count	10,809 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

92.3%, or 9977 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.94%, or 318 total occurrences, as black,
0.77%, or 83 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.38%, or 149 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.06%, or 115 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.55%, or 168 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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