Hamerton
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English hamor (“hammer; rocky mound”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun[edit]
Hamerton (countable and uncountable, plural Hamertons)
- A village in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL145794).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hamerton is the 19544th most common surname in England, belonging to 235 individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hamerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.