Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Agder and Telemark, so named from Old Norse hvammr ‘small valley’.
- French : nickname from Old French homme ‘man’ (compare Mann), or status name from the same word with the sense ‘vassal’, ‘feudal tenant’.
- Northern French (Hommé) : from a French form of the Germanic personal name Autmar, Otmar, composed of the elements aud ‘wealth’ + meri, mari ‘renowned’.