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hamlin Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Irish (of Norman origin): from the Norman personal name Ham(b)lin, Hamelin, a double diminutive of Haimo (see Hammond). This was the name of a prominent family in County Meath in Ireland in the 13th–18th centuries, but is now rare there.
  2. Variant of French Hamelin.

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Distribution of hamlin Families in the US in 1920
Number of hamlin families
 141-279
 48-140
 1-47
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