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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rodemann) : topographic name for someone who lived on woodland cleared for cultivation, a variant of Rode 2 with the addition of man ‘man’.
  • German (Rodemann) : from a Germanic personal name, Hrodman, formed with hrōd ‘renown’, ‘fame’ + man ‘man’.

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