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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rittmann) : topographic name for someone who lived among reeds, from Middle High German riet (ritt) ‘reed’ + man ‘man’.
  • German (Rittmann) : topographic name for someone who lived in a woodland clearing, Middle High German riute.
  • German (Rittmann) : from a Germanic personal name based on rīd ‘ride’.

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