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Question:Hammer is an english word. So the answer is not so easy to explain. There were not very many English Families named Hammer. However, the hammer is a tool that is used in many cultures. Last names that mean hammer refer to hammer makers and carpenters. There are actually places named hammer, as well as places whose names translate to hammer which may have produced members with this surname. There's really no direct way of saying a person named hammer is English or German, or even Russian or Itialian, because it's a word that describes a trade.

Name etomology includes:
Hamor, old English
Hamar, old High German

More importantly as foreign born citizens move to english speaking lands they may have changed their surname which meant hammer to the name hammer in English.

Ancestry.com notes that the place of Origin for 'hammer' Immigrants as:
Germany 430
Württemberg 58
Austria 55
Bavaria 55
Preussen 55
Norway 44

Here's the surname in Old German, 'Hamar'
Place of Origin hamar Immigrants
Germany 11
England 8
Sweden 6
Ireland 4
Hungary 3
Russia 1

Here's the surname in Old English, 'Hamor':
Place of Origin hamor Immigrants
England 6
Ireland 5
Germany 2
Poles 2
Russia 1
Christiania,Sweden 1

There's also the surname 'Hamer', which means Hammer in Dutch and Slovenian, and is a Jewish and German variant of the spelling. Hamer is also a place in Lancashire England.
Place of Origin hamer Immigrants
England 150
Germany 115
Preussen 29
Württemberg 23
Holland 19
Switzerland 15

Overtime many of some of these surnames may have evolved in the US into the surname Hammer.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hammer is an english word. So the answer is not so easy to explain. There were not very many English Families named Hammer. However, the hammer is a tool that is used in many cultures. Last names that mean hammer refer to hammer makers and carpenters. There are actually places named hammer, as well as places whose names translate to hammer which may have produced members with this surname. There's really no direct way of saying a person named hammer is English or German, or even Russian or Itialian, because it's a word that describes a trade.

Name etomology includes:
Hamor, old English
Hamar, old High German

More importantly as foreign born citizens move to english speaking lands they may have changed their surname which meant hammer to the name hammer in English.

Ancestry.com notes that the place of Origin for 'hammer' Immigrants as:
Germany 430
Württemberg 58
Austria 55
Bavaria 55
Preussen 55
Norway 44

Here's the surname in Old German, 'Hamar'
Place of Origin hamar Immigrants
Germany 11
England 8
Sweden 6
Ireland 4
Hungary 3
Russia 1

Here's the surname in Old English, 'Hamor':
Place of Origin hamor Immigrants
England 6
Ireland 5
Germany 2
Poles 2
Russia 1
Christiania,Sweden 1

There's also the surname 'Hamer', which means Hammer in Dutch and Slovenian, and is a Jewish and German variant of the spelling. Hamer is also a place in Lancashire England.
Place of Origin hamer Immigrants
England 150
Germany 115
Preussen 29
Württemberg 23
Holland 19
Switzerland 15

Overtime many of some of these surnames may have evolved in the US into the surname Hammer.

Norse / Scandanavian countries for sure; maybe Germany and others.

Check this out.... http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...

Names do not always have one primary original location.
Persons will. If this involves an ancestor... it is useless to guess which (of many countries) he/she may have come from.
Using US records.. find a record that is specific to the person (census, immigration, so forth) which should include the country.

If you are curious, go to
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...
Enter "Hammer*" with the asterisk in the surname, and check "Omit blanks" next to birth place. There are 25,000 entries.