Släkthistoria för Nineham
Nineham Vad efternamn betyder
either topographical from Middle English innom ‘intake enclosed ground’ (Old English *innām) or toponymic from any of numerous minor places in S England named with this word such as Inholms Farm in Dorking and Ninehams in Caterham (both Surrey) Inholmes in Ditchling Inholms Farm in East Grinstead Inholms Farm in Plumpton Inholms Copse in Stedham Inholms Gill in Lower Beeding and Inholms Wood in Cuckfield (all Sussex). Initial N- arises through misdivision of Middle English atten innome atte ninnome ‘at the intake’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
