Origin and popularity of the name HAMON

Origin

Hamon : Breton French and English (Channel Islands): from the Breton Old French Middle English personal name Hamon the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. See also Hammond.

Abraham : 1: English French Spanish German Slovenian Ethiopian and Assyrian/Chaldean; Hungarian (Ábrahám) Slovak (mainly Abrahám also Ábrahám) Czech (also Abrahám): from the Hebrew personal name ʾAbraham (modern spelling Avraham) borne by the Biblical patriarch revered by Jews as the founding father of the Jewish people (Genesis 11–25) and by Muslims as founder of all the Semitic peoples both Hebrew and Arab (compare Ibrahim). The original name of the Biblical patriarch was probably Abram meaning ‘high father’ (from ab father ram ‘exalted’) while its later form is explained in Genesis 17:5 as being derived from Hebrew ab hamon goyim ‘father of a multitude of nations’. It was widely used as a personal name among Christians as well as Jews in the Middle Ages. The name Abraham is also found among Christians in southern India but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. As a surname of Hungarian origin Abraham is also found in Romania. — Note: Since Ethiopians do not have hereditary surnames the Ethiopian name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.2: Irish: adoption of the English name (see 1 above) as an equivalent of Gaelic Mac an Bhreitheamhan ‘son of the judge’. See McBroom and compare Breheny.

Hammond : 1: English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English Old French personal name Ha(i)mon the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. It frequently developed excrescent -d giving Hamond Haimund and Hawmond. Alternatively the name could derive from the Middle English personal name Hamund (Old Norse Hámundr composed of the elements hár ‘high’ + mund ‘protection’) which may have been used in Normandy and in 12th-century eastern England but the former explanation is more likely. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon.2: English: in the Bradford area of Yorkshire the name is a shortened form of Ormondroyd formerly Hamondesrode from a lost place in Birstall (Yorkshire) named with the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (1 above) + Middle English roid a southern Yorkshire pronunciation of Old English rod ‘clearing’.3: Irish: generally an importation from England but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn see McCammon.

Hampson : 1: English (mainly Lancashire): patronymic from the Norman personal name Hamo Hamon (see Hammond).2: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAmhsaigh ‘descendant of Amhsach’ a byname meaning ‘mercenary soldier’ or ‘messenger’ from the adjective amhasach ‘aggressive’.

Ormondroyd : from a lost place in Birstall (WR Yorks) incorrectly recorded as Hamondeswode in 1307. It derives from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (see Hammond) + Middle English roid a southern West Riding pronunciation of Old English *rod ‘clearing’. Orm- is a late 18th- or 19th-century re-spelling of Awm-. For the development of -a- to -aw- in this name see Hawman.

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