![]() ![]() Irish: generally an importation from England but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn see McCammon. 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’. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon. 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. Explore historical records and family tree profiles about Irving Hammond on MyHeritage, the worlds family history network. It frequently developed excrescent -d giving Hamond Haimund and Hawmond. Surname meaning for Hammond 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’. ![]()
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