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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Old English wester or westerne ‘western’ + mann ‘man’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a regional name for one who had migrated from further west.
  • Americanized spelling of Westermann.

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