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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Püttermann) : variant of Püttmann (see Putman).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a dairyman or seller of butter, from northeastern Yiddish puter ‘butter’ + man ‘man’.

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