American Family Name Origins:
Hamiter
Frequency: (155)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: topographic name from Middle High German hamit, heimit ‘enclosure’, ‘clearing’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant; also a habitational name for someone from any of several small places named Hamet(en) in Bavaria and Austria.
FOREBEARS: The ancestor of the American Hamiter family, Thomas Hamiter, came from Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany to SC in 1752.
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