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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly from Middle English clamp ‘clamp’, ‘brace’, ‘iron band’ (a borrowing from Middle Dutch, first recorded in the early 14th century). This may have been a metonymic occupational name for a smith who specialized in making clamps.

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