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Diamond 1
Type Surname (ornamental)
Usage Jewish

Meaning & History

Americanized form of a Jewish surname, spelled in various ways, derived from modern German Diamant, Demant "diamond", or Yiddish dimet or diment, from the Middle High German diemant (via Latin from Greek adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference to the hardness of the stone). The name is mostly ornamental, one of the many Ashkenazic surnames based on mineral names, though in some cases it may have been adopted by a jeweler.
Added 9/8/2013 by Fanny
Edited 7/24/2017 by LMS

Diamond 2
Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage Irish

Meaning & History

Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin "descendant of Diamán", earlier Díomá or Déamán, a diminutive of Díoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid.
Added 9/8/2013 by Fanny
Edited 3/11/2017 by LMS and Fanny

Diamond 3
not set
Type Surname
Usage English

Meaning & History

English variant of Dayman (see Day). Forms with the excrescent d are not found before the 17th century; they are at least in part the result of folk etymology.
Added 3/11/2017 by LMS