Beauchamp Family History
Beauchamp Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of several places in France for example in Manche and Somme that are named with Old French beu bel ‘fair lovely’ + champ(s) ‘field plain’ (from Latin bello campo ‘beautiful field’). In English the surname is generally pronounced Beecham . Compare Bushaw . English: in some cases an Anglo-Norman French adaptation of Scottish Campbell by translation into French of the folk etymology de campo bello ‘from the fair field’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022