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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain derivation. Reaney suggests this is from Old French dix mars ‘ten marks’, presumably as a nickname for someone who owed this as a feudal due or paid it in rent.
  • German : variant of the personal name Dietmar (see Dittmar).

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