Haimo

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 diminutive suffix -et, giving the pet-name Hamunet, which in turn gave rise to the English name Hamnett and its variants.[3]

People

Listed chronologically.

  • Aimo (d. 1173), French monk, mystic and saint
  • Heymo (bishop of Wrocław) (r. 1120–1126)
Aymon
Haimo
  • Haimo of Auxerre (d. c. 865), French monk and biblical scholar
  • Haimo de Valognes (r. 1086), Anglo Norman lord in Suffolk[4]
Haymo
Hamo
Hamon

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Haimo
  • All pages with titles containing Haimo

References

  1. ^ 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.; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  2. ^ Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916), pp. 140–142 (for Hammond and Fitzhamon).
  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), II, p. 1183 [s.v. Hamnett, and the other entries referred to there]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  4. ^ "Open Domesday".
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