Lamming Surname Guide

In old registers, Lamming often stands in for Lamb. At root, the name means “Lamb, a gentle person, or from Lambert”. Lamming adds -ming to the root of Lamb, a common way of forming related surnames. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Lambe.

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