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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • (North?) German (Schwietermann) : probably a patronymic from the medieval personal name Swider (see Schweder 2) + Middle Low German man ‘man’. If the surname exists at all in present-day Germany, it is very rare.

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