Hamerton

English

Etymology

From Old English hamor (“hammer; rocky mound”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Hamerton (countable and uncountable, plural Hamertons)

1. A village in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL145794).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hamerton is the 19544^th most common surname in England, belonging to 235 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hamerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.