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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Mittmann) : status name for a tenant farmer who paid rent, or an occupational name for a day laborer or journeyman, from a dialect pronunciation with short vowel of Middle High German miete ‘rent’ + man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably a variant of Mittelman.

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