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Updated June 9, 2019

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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