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damon Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: from the personal name Damon, from a classical Greek name, a derivative of daman ‘to kill’. Compare Damian.
  2. Respelling of the French surname D’Amont, a topographic name, with the preposition d(e) denoting someone who lived à mont ‘uphill’, i.e. on high ground above a village or settlement.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the damon family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of damon Families in the US in 1920
Number of damon families
 178-354
 60-177		 1-59
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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