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.