Popularity of the last name by country
United Kingdom
- Kent (30,640)
- Norfolk (22,369)
- Suffolk (20,410)
- Essex (14,921)
- London (12,994)
- North Yorkshire (9,551)
- Surrey (7,390)
- Lancashire (6,767)
- Warwickshire (5,890)
- Hampshire (5,051)
- Lincolnshire (4,754)
- Staffordshire (4,611)
- Cambridgeshire (3,955)
- Cheshire (3,216)
- Hertfordshire (2,929)
- Herefordshire and Worcester (2,621)
- Shropshire (2,245)
- West Sussex (2,051)
- County Durham (1,954)
- East Sussex (1,822)
- Buckinghamshire (1,573)
- Dorset (1,536)
- Gloucestershire (1,514)
- Northamptonshire (1,459)
- Devon (1,145)
- Derbyshire (1,077)
- Leicestershire (923)
- Wiltshire (898)
- Strathclyde (847)
- Somerset (815)
- Nottinghamshire (805)
- Berkshire (668)
- Oxfordshire (501)
- Cornwall (496)
- Northumberland (493)
- West Yorkshire (362)
- Antrim (333)
- Cumbria (333)
- Bedfordshire (296)
- South Yorkshire (278)
- Jersey (254)
- Lothian (245)
- Avon (208)
- Isle of Wight (183)
- West Midlands (153)
- Cleveland (151)
- Merseyside (118)
- West Glamorgan (110)
- Powys (107)
- Londonderry (95)
- Gwent (87)
- Humberside (81)
- Down (79)
- Tyne and Wear (79)
- Tayside (70)
- Dyfed (57)
- Dumfries and Galloway (51)
- Armagh (46)
- East Riding of Yorkshire (33)
- Grampian (33)
All countries
- United Kingdom (203,102)
- United States (124,056)
- Australia (8,349)
- New Zealand (6,900)
- Ireland (5,883)
- Canada (3,643)
- France (3,403)
- Unknown country (2,758)
- Norway (831)
- Germany (540)
- Netherlands (375)
- Italy (313)
- Belgium (291)
- Denmark (260)
- Switzerland (217)
- Colombia (180)
- South Africa (148)
- India (125)
- Spain (112)
- Mexico (102)
- China (76)
- Singapore (58)
- Turkey (55)
- Sweden (53)
- Greece (52)
- Austria (51)
- Russian Federation (49)
- Peru (47)
- Jamaica (44)
- Brazil (40)
- Argentina (35)
- Cuba (35)
- Philippines (33)
- Indonesia (32)
- Poland (32)
- Chile (29)
- Egypt (29)
- Lebanon (29)
- Paraguay (25)
- Czech republic (22)
Origine of last name
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 <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Almond">Almond</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ammon">Ammon</a>.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 <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McCammon">McCammon</a>.
Learn more