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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rothman.
  • Variant and altered spelling of German Rut(h)mann, a habitational name for someone from Ruthe in Lower Saxony or Rutha in Thuringia.

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