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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.htm

Freddiebear

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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

- 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.

- 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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