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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish : nickname for a newcomer to a place, from nie ‘new’ (variant of German neu or Dutch nieuw) + man ‘man’.
  • Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish : Perhaps also from niemand ‘nobody’, hence a nickname for an orphan or a person of no account.

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