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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from a short form of a variant of the personal name Diederich + man ‘man’.
  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a meeting place, Low German Tie.
  • German : from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Timotheus, from Greek Timotheos (see Timothy).

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