Hamer Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Hamer is a branch of the Hammer name tree. The family name meaning is “Smith, hammer maker”, the same as for Hammer.

Spelling and variants

Without the “m” of Hammer, Hamer is a simpler written form of the same name. The same family of names includes Hämmerle.

In the 2010 US Census, 6,783 Americans gave Hamer as their last name (rank 5,158). 184 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Hamer name at birth.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Hammer and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Hamer report, with a museum-style coat of arms.