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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Butmann) : from Middle Low German butenman ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’ (from buten ‘outside’ + man ‘man’).
  • North German (But(t)mann) : perhaps an occupational name for a fish seller (see Butt 5).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : unexplained.

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