The diamond Surname

diamond Name Meaning and History

Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of a Jewish surname, spelled in various ways, derived from modern German Diamant, Demant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dime(n)t, going back to 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.
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.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’, earlier Díomá or Déamán, a diminutive of Díoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see McDermott).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of diamond Families in the US in 1920

Number of diamond families

415-828

139-414

1-138

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Malinda Diamond b.1775	shark105	15
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Info Request: Sarah Tiernan, b. 1869, d. 1920, Providence, RI, USA	jackie whedbee	1
Info Request: Thomas Diamond, b. 1856, Ont, Canada, in Oswego, NY 1880	jackie whedbee	0
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Diamond Family Reunion - July 25, 2009	LMnJCB1	0
diamonds in Scotland or the UK	Rosevmoore	1
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