Norwegian: habitational name from numerous farmsteads, notably in
western Norway, named Hamre, from the dative case of Old Norse
hamarr ‘cliff’, ‘rock’. See Hamar.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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