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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland) : from southern Yiddish inger man ‘younger man’, perhaps a name taken by a younger son.
  • Swedish and German (Ingermann) : regional name for someone from Ingermanland (Ingria), a former province between Finland and Russia.

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