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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands), Scottish, and Swedish : from the Old Norse personal name Hemingr, of uncertain origin, apparently related to hemingr ‘skin on the hind legs of an animal’.
  • German (Frisian) : patronymic from Hemme 1.
  • French : habitational name from Heming in Moselle.

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