Hammel Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Hamel and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Search old registers for Hammel and you will soon meet Hamel too. Its meaning, shared with Hamel, is “Small village / wether”.

Hammel adds “m” to Hamel, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. According to the 2010 US Census, the Hammel surname had 5,146 bearers. 333 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Hammel name at birth.

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