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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : status name for the head of a tithing, Old English tēoðingmann (from tēoðing ‘tithing’, a group of households, originally ten households, + mann ‘man’). According to the medieval system of frankpledge, every member of a tithing was responsible for every other, so that for example if one of them committed a crime the others had to help pay for it.
  • English : from the Middle English, Old English personal name Tideman, composed of Old English tīd ‘time’, ‘season’ + mann ‘man’.
  • Altered spelling of German Tittmann, a variant of Dittmann.

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