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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Frisian) : from a short form of the personal name Hemmert derived from a Germanic compound name formed with heim ‘home’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘illustrious’.
  • German (Frisian) : possibly a habitational name from a place called Hemme in Holstein.

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