What Was Birmingham Called Before?
Brum. City of a Thousand Trades. 0121. Second City. What was the original name of Birmingham? BeormingahāmThe name “Birmingham” comes from the Old English Beormingahām, meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas – a tribe or clan whose name literally means “Beorma’s people” and which may have formed an early unit of Anglo-Saxon administration. …