needham · noun1
Thought to have been named after Irish-born American evangelist George Carter Needham.
Needham · proper noun2
- Old English · derived fromnīed“need, necessity”
- English todayNeedham
From Old English nīed (“need, necessity”) + hām (“homestead”), i.e. a place that provided a poor living.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishnīed all →
need
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.