as a Last Name
- 219,921
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hamilton
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from what is now a deserted village in the parish of Barkby, Leicestershire. This is named from Old English hamel ‘crooked’ + dūn ‘hill’. Hamilton near Glasgow was founded by the Hamiltons and named after them. In Ireland, this name may have replaced Hamill in a few cases. It has also been used as the equivalent of the Irish (Cork) name Ó hUrmholtaigh.
| 107th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 219,921
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Hamilton per capita
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