Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name from Middle High German hamit, heimit ‘enclosure’, ‘clearing’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant; also a habitational name for someone from any of several small places named Hamet(en) in Bavaria and Austria.
- The ancestor of the American Hamiter family, Thomas Hamiter, came from Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany to SC in 1752.