Hamm Family History
Hamm Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Old English hamm,
denoting a patch of flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream
(often a promontory or water meadow in a river bend), or a
habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word,
for example in Gloucestershire, Greater London, Kent, Somerset, and
Wiltshire.German: topographic name for someone who lived
on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1
above).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from
Hamm, a city in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
292,001
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hamm
Name Distribution of Hamm Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamm families
 34 - 65  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Hamm last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hamm census records
You can see how Hamm families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Hamm census records
>
Hamm Family Origin
Hamm Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Hamm emigration records
You can find out when most of the Hamm families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Hamm emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Hamm Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hamm census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Hamm ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Hamm census records >
Military Service by Hamm
Message Board about Hamm
536 Threads, 51
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Hamm.
Threads: 536 - Messages: 51
Start a FREE Hamm family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×