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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Russmann) : from Ru(o)ss, a derivative of the personal name Rudolf + Middle High German man ‘man’.
  • German (Russmann) : nickname for someone who had traveled to Russia or had some connection with that country (see Russ 2).
  • German (Russmann) : perhaps a habitational name for someone from any of several places named Rüssen in Lower Saxony and Saxony.

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