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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish form of Summer.
  • Americanized form of German Zimmer ‘carpenter’.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places named Simmern, in Hesse, near Koblenz, and near Bingen.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from southern Yiddish zimer ‘summer’.

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