Hämmerle: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

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

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.

A variant of Hammer

With the diminutive -le, Hämmerle is a pet form of Hammer that became a surname in its own right. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Hamer.

About 786 people in the United States were recorded as Hämmerle in 2010, placing it 29,878 on the national list. Want more than a summary? See the Hämmerle family name pack.