Hammer Family History
Hammer Name Meaning
German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High
German hamer, Yiddish hamer, a metonymic occupational
name for a maker or user of hammers, for example in a forge, or
nickname for a forceful person.English and German:
topographic name for someone who lived in an area of flat, low-lying
alluvial land beside a stream, Old English hamm, Old High
German ham (see Hamm) + the English and German agent
suffix -er.Norwegian: variant of Hamar.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hammer
Name Distribution of Hammer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hammer families
 182 - 362  61 - 181 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hammer families
|
24 - 46 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hammer families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hammer census records
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Hammer Family Origin
Hammer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hammer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hammer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hammer census records
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Hammer Civil War Service Records
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