Meaning and history
From a Scottish and English surname derived from Old English hamel, meaning “crooked, mutilated,” and dun, meaning “hill,” originally taken from the name of a now-lost town in Leicestershire, England. A notable bearer was Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), a founding father of the United States who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
20062006: 75 births, rank #1,823
2007: 63 births, rank #2,139
2008: 92 births, rank #1,665
2009: 78 births, rank #1,861
2010: 59 births, rank #2,212
20112011: 71 births, rank #1,947
2012: 56 births, rank #2,292
2013: 86 births, rank #1,709
2014: 93 births, rank #1,657
2015: 86 births, rank #1,767
20162016: 98 births, rank #1,628
2017: 83 births, rank #1,809
2018: 80 births, rank #1,872
2019: 81 births, rank #1,849
2020: 56 births, rank #2,366
20212021: 73 births, rank #2,026
2022: 68 births, rank #2,150
2023: 48 births, rank #2,693
2024: 50 births, rank #2,637
20252025: 38 births, rank #3,128
Hamilton moved from #833 to #912 for boys between 1931 and 1933. Its highest annual birth count came in 1917, with 78 births.