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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Gottesman.
  • German (Gottmann) : from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with gōd ‘good’ or got, god ‘god’ (for example Gottfried, Gotthardt, Gottschalk) + man ‘man’.

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