Hamm

• As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”).
• Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.

Hamm

1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
2. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

• Ah Mm

Compare German Heim.

Hamm

1. (Erzgebirgisch) home

• Hammweh

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From Middle Low German ham, hamm (“land enclosed by a river”); cognate with Old English hamm (“enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈham/

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• Rhymes: -am

Hamm m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hamms or (with an article) Hamm, feminine genitive Hamm, plural Hamms)

1. a topographic or habitational surname with an etymology similar to that of English Hamm

Hamm n (proper noun, genitive Hamms or (optionally with an article) Hamm)

1. Hamm (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)