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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Norman personal name Hameley, a double diminutive of Hamo (see Hammond).
  • English : habitational name from Hamly Bridge in Chiddingly, Sussex, named from an Old English personal name Eamba + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’.

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