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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a pet form of a Germanic name formed with the unattested element þeodo- ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + a second element beginning with m-, as in Dietmar (māri, mēri ‘famous’).
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Thieme.

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