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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Dutch Uitman or North German Utmann, from Middle Low German ūtman ‘stranger’, ‘newcomer’, or possibly from the South German cognate Ussmann, from Middle High German ūzman (as opposed to Land(s)mann ‘fellow countryman’).

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