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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Ledermann), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a leatherworker or seller of leather goods, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch leder, German Leder ‘leather’ + -man(n) ‘man’.

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