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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Belgian and Dutch (van Hamme) : habitational name from any of various places in Belgium, in the provinces of Brabant, Hainault, East Flanders, and Limburg, named with Middle Dutch hamme ‘flood plain’, ‘water meadow’, or ‘land in a river bend’.

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