Lammers
A surname of Germanic and Dutch background, most likely from a personal name built on the old name element Lambert.
The #6,674 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 61,005 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lammers is most plausibly a patronymic surname formed from the given name Lambert or a related short form. The old Germanic name Lambert contains elements meaning roughly “land” or “territory” plus “bright” or “famous.” In that sense, Lammers would have meant “son of Lammer/Lambert” or “descendant of someone called Lammer.”
History
The historical references available link Lammers with other continental German and Dutch surname forms, especially Lambert, Lambrecht, and Lammerts. That points to a North German and Dutch naming environment rather than an English one. The surname later appears in the United States through immigration from German-speaking and Dutch-speaking regions.
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Fun fact
In older surname dictionaries, Lammers is often grouped with a whole family of names built on the medieval Germanic given name Lambert.
From the historical record
“Lomas, Lomax. Fr. Lammas, La- musse ; FI. Lammers ; Dch. Lom- merse ; p.n. (time of birth (?) ), (famous) Lammasse in Rot. Hund. Lamisso, a Lomb, king, 5th century.”
— British Family Names: their origin and meaning (2nd ed.)