Hammer Family History
- Hammer Name Meaning
- German, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hamer, Yiddish hamer, a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hammers, for example in a forge, or nickname for a forceful person. English and German: topographic name for someone who lived in an area of flat, low-lying alluvial land beside a stream, Old English hamm, Old High German ham (see Hamm) + the English and German agent suffix -er. Norwegian: variant of Hamar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 822,218 Historical Documents with Hammer on Ancestry
- 359,936 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 120,521 Census and Voter Lists
- 36,196 Military Records
- 23,619 Immigration Records
- 281,946 Member Trees
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Number of Hammer families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hammer families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hammer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Hammer census records
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