HAMLETT

HAMLETT. Hamlet or Ilamleth appears to have been an old Scandinavian personal name, whether the hero of Shakspeare's tragedy was a real character or only an imaginary one. If this derivation is incorrect, we can hardlj' fall back ujjon hamlet, a small village, for the origin of the surname. Grose says that it is a provincialism for a high constable.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.