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The hemming Surname

hemming Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. German (Frisian): patronymic from Hemme 1.
  3. French: habitational name from Heming in Moselle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hemming Families in the US in 1920
Number of hemming families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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