Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic), French (of German origin), and Dutch : habitational name from the city of Mannheim in southwestern Germany (formerly the residence of the electors Palatine), so named from the Germanic personal name Manno (see Mann 2) + Old High German heim ‘homestead’. Mannheim was not fortified or chartered until the beginning of the 17th century, until which time it was just a small fishing village.