Family name origins & meanings
- Danish and Swedish : nickname for a newcomer to a place, from Scandinavian ny ‘new’ + man ‘man’. The Swedish name may also be of ornamental origin.
- Jewish : American spelling variant of Naiman ‘newcomer’.
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