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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Tinsmann) : status name for a tax (rent) payer, from Middle Low German tins ‘tax’ + man ‘man’.
  • German (Tinsmann) : perhaps a habitational name for someone from any of several places in Silesia named Tinz.

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