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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Bach ‘stream’, ‘creek’ + Mann ‘man’.
  • Respelling of German Bachmann.
  • According to family tradition, a Bachman family from Berne canton, Switzerland, came to PA with William Penn in 1677.

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