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
- Aimo (d. 1173), French monk, mystic and saint
- Heymo (bishop of Wrocław) (r. 1120–1126)
- Aymon
- Aymon de Briançon (d. 1211), archbishop of Tarentaise
- Aymon II of Geneva (r. 1265–1280), count
- Aymon, Count of Savoy (r. 1329–1343)
- Aymon III of Geneva (r. 1367), count
- Aymon of Ortinge (fl. 1369), French mercenary captain
- Aymon of Challant (d. c. 1387), Aostan nobleman
- Aymon I de Chissé (d. 1428), bishop of Nice and Grenoble
- Aymon II de Chissé (d. 1450), bishop of Nice and Grenoble
- Haimo
- Haimo of Auxerre (d. c. 865), French monk and biblical scholar
- Haimo de Valognes (r. 1086), Anglo Norman lord in Suffolk[4]
- Haymo
- Haymo of Halberstadt (died 853), German monk, bishop and biblical scholar
- Haymo of Faversham (d. c. 1243), English Franciscan scholar
- Hamo
- Hamo the Steward (fl. 1071–1076), Anglo-Norman sheriff of Kent
- Hamo Dapifer (d. c. 1100), Anglo-Norman official
- Hamo (dean of Lincoln) (fl. 1189–1195)
- Hamo (dean of York) (fl. 1216–1219)
- Hamo de Crevecoeur (d. 1263), Anglo-Norman official
- Hamo le Strange (d. 12727/1273), English crusader
- Hamo Hethe (c. 1275–1352), bishop of Rochester
- Hamo Thornycroft (1850–1925), English sculptor
- Hamon
- Hamon Dentatus (d. 1047), Norman baron
- Hamon de Massey (fl. c. 1070), Anglo-Norman baron
- Hamon Sutton (d. 1461/1462), English MP
See also
- Duke Aymon, a character in several Old French and Italian epics
- Heime, a figure popular in German and Scandinavian legends
- Haymon, a figure of Tyrolean legend
- Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, given by the Mathematical Association of America
References
- 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.
- Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916), pp. 140–142 (for Hammond and Fitzhamon).
- 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.
- "Open Domesday".
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