Hamm Family History
Hamm Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Old English hamm,
denoting a patch of flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream
(often a promontory or water meadow in a river bend), or a
habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word,
for example in Gloucestershire, Greater London, Kent, Somerset, and
Wiltshire.German: topographic name for someone who lived
on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1
above).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from
Hamm, a city in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hamm Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamm families
 119 - 235  40 - 118 |
 1 - 39  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hamm families
|
34 - 65 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Hamm last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hamm Family Origin
Hamm Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hamm
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Hamm Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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