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Hammond
How to Pronounce Hammond
Pronounced HAM-uhnd /ˈhæmənd/High
Meaning: Hammond comes from the medieval personal name Hamon or Haimo, brought to England by the Normans and rooted in a Germanic element meaning 'home'. It hardened into a surname and, like many English surnames, was handed down as a given name. The final syllable reflects the Norman diminutive ending, so the whole reads roughly as 'little home' or 'homestead man'.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Hammond began as a Norman personal name, Hamon, carried into England after 1066 and tied to a Germanic word for 'home'. Over the Middle Ages it settled into a family surname, and by the nineteenth century American families were reviving it as a first name in the surname-as-forename fashion.
In United States records it was never more than a scattering, drawing only a couple dozen boys a year even at its early-twentieth-century high around 1921. It reads today as an old, faintly patrician surname-name rather than a nursery favourite, and a boy given it then would belong to a great-grandfather's generation now.
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What does the name Hammond mean?
It comes from a Norman personal name meaning 'home' or 'homestead', later an English surname.
How do you pronounce Hammond?
It's said HAM-uhnd /ˈhæmənd/, two syllables, stress on the first.
Is Hammond a boy or girl name?
Hammond is used as a boy's name.
Is Hammond a popular name?
No, it has always been rare as a first name in America, an old surname-name that saw only faint use in the early twentieth century.