The Hamond Family Name

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

Family name meaning

Ancestors listed as Hamond are often found as Hammond a generation earlier. Taken at its root, Hamond points to “From the Norman personal name Hamon”.

Hamond drops the “m” of Hammond, a simplification that clerks often made. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Hammonds, Hammon and Hammons. According to the 2010 US Census, the Hamond surname had 252 bearers. 131 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Hamond name at birth.

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