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HAMILTON
SOURCE:
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USAGE:
English
,
Scottish
Meaning & History
From an English or Scottish place name, derived from its
elements
hamil
, which means "treeless hill", and
tun
, which means "settlement". The literal translation of the surname would be "treeless hill town".
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