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The origins of the name
The Breton family name Hamon comes from a name of German
origin Haimo. This name is also derived from the
Saxon name Ham, meaning the home.
There are 22,900 people with this name in France today and
they are still located in Brittany.
The Hamons in the Loire Valley
This region has about 1,050 Hamons, which is 4.5% of all
those bearing this name in France. The department having the
greatest number is Maine-et-Loire (170 families) followed by
Indre-et-Loire (52), Loir-et-Cher (24), Deux-Sèvres
(18), Vienne (12), Cher (11) and Indre (10).
The oldest French person
Marie Henry de Villeneuve (1864-1972), wife of General
Charles Hamon (1855-1914), became the oldest French person
in 1972.
A resistance anarchist
Augustin-Frédéric Hamon (1862-1945), born in
Nantes, was the son of a tinsmith who invented lead pipes
lined with tin for drinking water supply
systems. Augustin became a sociologist, philologist and
later an anarchist and disciple of Bakounine. A
free-thinker and a Free Mason, he fled to London during
WWII, became a Resistance fighter and a member of the
Communist Party after the libertion of France.
Some remarkable doctors
Joseph-Marie Hamon (1807-1867) was a doctor who treated
cholera patients in Brittany in 1832 and then in Oran in
1834. Doctor Joseph-Marie-Mathurin Hamon (1890-1973), who
was also from Brittany, he became a well-known
neuro-psychiatrist.
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Number of households bearing this name
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more than 1000
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from 150 to 350
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from 350 to 1000
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less than 150
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A royalist insurgent from western France
during the Revolution...and
unlucky
Yves-Gilles Hamon (1777-1853), a royalist
insurgent, was arrested in 1799 and condemned to
death but was able to escape the night before his
execution. He was again arrested in 1800,
despite an amnesty, and was forced to join the
Republican army in the fight against the English.
He was taken prisoner and spent four years in
chains on English prison ships. He didn't
return to France until the Restoration and obtained
a job in customs. His son, Jean-Louis
(1821-1874), became a well-known painter.
The Hamons in history
Pierre Hamon was a renowned European calligrapher
for whom a printing character is named. He
was executed, in 1569, as a Huguenot.
André-Jean-Marie Hamon (1795-1874), from the
Mayenne region, was the priest of Saint Sulpice,
the author of a small book on preaching which was
adopted by all of the seminaries in
France.
Yves Hamon (1909-1980), farmer, Mayor of Lenon
(29), Regional Council member and then Senator of
the Finistère region from 1959 to
1971...
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