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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, such as Hadumar or Hammingus, or from Hamo, a short form of a name derived from an element cognate with Gothic hamon ‘to cover’, ‘to clothe’ and modern German Hemd ‘shirt’.

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