Etymology

bonham

bon·ham
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Today it means: A piglet. Full definition →

Irish banbhán
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  1. Irish · borrowed frombanbhán“piglet”
  2. English todaybonham

From Irish banbhán (“piglet”), altered under the influence of the surname Bonham.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.