Sammon: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Sammon is how some branches of the Salmon family came to write their name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Solomon”. Sammon writes “m” in place of the “l” found in Salmon, a typical scribal difference. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

1,176 Americans were listed as Sammon in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

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