Hamelink Family History

Dutch: variant of Ameling originally from Dutch Flanders where h at the beginning of a word is not pronounced and hence may be unnecessarily written.

Possibly also a variant of Hamerlinck, a Flemish surname which developed after consonant change lr to rl from the medieval personal name Amalric.

This name is composed of the ancient Germanic elements amal ‘capable, brave, eager’ + rīc ‘power’.