Diamond Family History
Diamond Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of a Jewish surname,
spelled in various ways, derived from modern German Diamant,
Demant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dime(n)t, going back to
Middle High German diemant (via Latin from Greek
adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference
to the hardness of the stone). The name is mostly ornamental, one of
the many Ashkenazic surnames based on mineral names, though in some
cases it may have been adopted by a jeweler.English:
variant of Dayman (see Day). Forms with the excrescent
d are not found before the 17th century; they are at least in
part the result of folk etymology.Irish: Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’,
earlier Díomá or Déamán, a diminutive of
Díoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see
McDermott).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Diamond Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Diamond families
 94 - 186  32 - 93 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Diamond families
|
121 - 240 41 - 120 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Diamond Family Origin
Diamond Emigration Information (US)
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Diamond Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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