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The jamar Surname

jamar Name Meaning and History

  1. Probably an altered spelling of the French surname Jamard, from the Germanic personal name Gamhard, of which the first element gam- may be a shortened form of gamal ‘old’ or gaman ‘joy’; the second element hard means ‘hardy’, ‘strong’.
  2. Northern Slovenian: topographic name for someone who lived in a cave or pit, from an agent derivative of jama ‘pit’, ‘cave’, ‘hole’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of jamar Families in the US in 1920
Number of jamar families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
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