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[Facts] Re: Meaning and origin of Lamar.
by Freddie Bear (guest)
6/22/2005, 2:57 AM
in reply to a message by Miranda
I concur - a mystical name - 'of the sea' according to:-http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/mysticalnames.htmFreddiebear
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- Freddiebear (guest)   +2
6/24/2005, 1:48 AM
Lareina Rule's 'Name Your Baby' says it from the Old German 'Land-mari' meaning Land-famous.Freddie Bear
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- Andy ;—) (guest)   +1
6/24/2005, 3:25 AM
This does not seem likely to me. I found LANDAMAR (and LANDMAR and LANDEMAR)*, but not LAMAR.
Seibicke** doesn't list this variant either and says: "from the French surname Delamare"* Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsche Personennamen (1906)
** Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch I-IV, 2000 ff.
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- Freddiebear (guest)
6/24/2005, 7:34 AM
Interesting - I have no idea - I wonder what Lareina's sources were?Freddie Bear
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