Home>Name Popularity>First Names>H>Hame-Hami>Hamilton in the US

Hamilton

in the US

There are 4,163 people with the first name "Hamilton" in the United States.

Add to web page

Ranking in the US

NameRank
Hamilton 2,947
close
  1. is 2,943rd most common Rana
  2. is 2,944th most common Loriann
  3. is 2,945th most common Hien
  4. is 2,946th most common Kiran
  5. is 2,947th most common Hamilton
  6. is 2,948th most common Tong
  7. is 2,949th most common Jeni
  8. is 2,950th most common Jamison
  9. is 2,951st most common Donato

Most Common Last Names for Hamilton

Smith, Brown, Jones, James, Williams, Lee, Scott, Hall, Moore, Robinson

Meaning & History

(male) Mainly North American: transferred use of the Scottish surname. This was brought to Scotland in or before the 13th century from a village (now deserted) called Hamilton or Hameldune, near Barkby in Leicestershire (named with Old English hamel ‘blunt, flat-topped’ + dūn ‘hill’). It is the surname of an enormously widespread and influential family, who acquired many titles, including the dukedom of Hamilton. The town near Glasgow so called is named after the family, not vice versa. Use as a given name seems to have begun in the United States in honour of Alexander Hamilton (?1757–1804), who was Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington and did much to establish the political and financial system on which the industrial growth and prosperity of the United States came to be founded. He was killed in a duel with the irascible Aaron Burr.

Recent Searches for "Hamilton" in the US

Since June 2009
1,618

Most Popular Search

Hamilton Smith (9 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages.

© 2009 WhitePages Inc. - Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use and Privacy Statement