Damon Family History
- Damon Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: from the personal name Damon, from a classical Greek name, a derivative of daman ‘to kill’. Compare Damian. Respelling of the French surname D’Amont, a topographic name, with the preposition d(e) denoting someone who lived à mont ‘uphill’, i.e. on high ground above a village or settlement.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 353,369 Historical Documents with Damon on Ancestry
- 106,081 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 49,888 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,465 Military Records
- 5,903 Immigration Records
- 180,032 Member Trees
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Number of Damon families
 52 - 102  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Damon families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Damon census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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