Hermitage Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Anyone researching Hermitage should also look under Armitage. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “dweller by a hermitage”.

Records show Hermitage as one of the forms Armitage took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Related forms: Armytage.

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