Haimo, also spelled Hamo, Heimo, Hamon, Haim, Haym, Heym, Aymo, Aimo, etc., is a masculine
given name of
Germanic origin. The
Old French forms are Haimon, Aymon, Aimon, Aymes. It is a
hypocoristic form of various Germanic names beginning with the radical haim-, meaning "home".
Appearance in modern Anglophone naming
Haimo is the origin of a wide range of surnames, including English surnames like Hame, Haim, Haime, Haimes, Hains, Haines, Hayns, Haynes, Hammon, Hammond,[1] and
Fitzhamon.[2] The Old French form Haimon was then combined with the
diminutivesuffix-et, giving the pet-name Hamunet, which in turn gave rise to the English name Hamnett and its variants.[3]
^The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), s.vv.;
ISBN978-0-19-967776-4.
^The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1183 [s.v. Hamnett, and the other entries referred to there];
ISBN978-0-19-967776-4.
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