How to pronounce Studholme?

STUD-um

'STUD'-um
um - pronounced as in the first syllable of 'woman'

'STUD'-um
um - pronounced as in the first syllable of 'woman'

Last Name / Place Name

English

Studholme is a surname as well as a place name. The original location is the hamlet of Studholme, in Cumberland (now Cumbria) in the north west of England. There are also places with the name Studholme in New Zealand, named after the original settlers of that name who arrived from England in the 1850s.

'Stud' means 'horse', while 'holme' means 'low flat land near a river' (often seen as 'holm' with this meaning on maps)