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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and English : occupational name for a carpenter or timber merchant, from Middle English timber, tymber, Middle Dutch timmer, Low German Timmer ‘timber’ + Middle English, Middle Dutch man, Low German Mann ‘man’.
  • Variant spelling of German Timmermann.

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