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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Agder and Telemark, so named from Old Norse hvammr ‘small valley’.
  • French : nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (compare Mann), or status name from the same word with the sense ‘vassal’, ‘feudal tenant’.
  • Northern French (Hommé) : from a French form of the Germanic personal name Autmar, Otmar, composed of the elements aud ‘wealth’ + meri, mari ‘renowned’.

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