Hamm.
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
Meaning & usage
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Where this word comes from
* As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”). * Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.
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