Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
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