Frequency: (249)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, especially in Vestlandet, named Kvamme, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvammr ‘little valley’.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 11%. Torvald (2), Lief, Sig.
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