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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for a hawker or travelling salesman, Middle Dutch me(e)rseman.
  • Dutch : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named ter or de Meers(ch).
  • German : unexplained; possibly a variant of Massmann.
  • English : unexplained.

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