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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : variant spelling of Hamill.
  • North German : nickname or metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German hamel ‘wether’, ‘castrated ram’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hamel.

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