Hamill is a surname originally of Norman origin, a habitational name from Haineville or Henneville in Manche France named from the ancient Germanic personal name Hagano, Old French ville ‘settlement’.

In England (Lancashire): nickname for a maimed person or someone with a distinctive scar from Middle English Old English hamel ‘mutilated scarred’.

Irish (Ulster): according to MacLysaght a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÁdhmaill ‘descendant of Ádhmall’ which he derives from ádhmall ‘active’.

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Name history

  • This surname Hamill is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Hamel'; compare the local Hamilton,' the town of Hamil' (v. Town). From the same root as Hamo; v. Hammon and Hamlin..

Hamill Name Meaning

  • Scottish (Lanarkshire): of Norman origin a habitational name from Haineville or Henneville in Manche France named from the ancient Germanic personal name Hagano + Old French ville ‘settlement’.
  • The English (Lancashire): nickname for a maimed person or someone with a distinctive scar from Middle English Old English hamel ‘mutilated scarred’.

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