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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from Low German timmer ‘timber’.
  • North German : from a reduced form of Thiemer, a variant of Dittmar.
  • North German : habitational name from any of several places called Timmern in Lower Saxony.

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