# Effingham

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #62,115

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ1253).
2. A hamlet in the town of Pelham, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
3. A place in the United States:
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## Etymology
From Old English, "Effa's farmstead," from *Effa + -ing + ham (“home”). The first element is a variant of Æffa, Uffa, a king of the Angles (c. 575), attested in names such as Abridge, Uffington, and Ufford, but of uncertain origin.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/effingham