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hamilton Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from what is now a deserted village in the parish of Barkby, Leicestershire. This is named from Old English hamel ‘crooked’ + dun ‘hill’. Hamilton near Glasgow was founded by the Hamiltons and named after them. In Ireland, this name may have replaced Hamill in a few cases. It has also been used as the equivalent of the Irish (Cork) name Ó hUrmholtaigh.

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

Distribution of hamilton Families in the US in 1920
Number of hamilton families
 1060-2117
 354-1059		 1-353
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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