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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Kindermann, or Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a schoolteacher, literally ‘children man’.
  • It may also be an altered form of the German surname Kunterman, a derivative of the personal name Günther (see Guenther).

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