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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle Low German dam ‘dike’, ‘highway’ + man ‘man’ (see Damm), or a habitational name from any of the various places named Damm or Damme from this word, for example in Brandenburg, Oldenburg, and Pomerania.

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