Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage Dutch
Meaning & History
Means "wether, castrated ram" in Dutch, an occupational name for a shepherd.
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Meaning & History
topographic name for someone who lived and worked at an outlying farm dependent on the main village Old French hamel (a diminutive from an ancient Germanic element cognate with Old English ham "homestead"); or a habitational name from (Le) Hamel the name of several places in the northern part of France named with this word.
Meaning & History
Habitational name from the town of Hamelin, which sits on the Hamel river.
