Family name origins & meanings
- English : status name for the head of a tithing, Old English tēoðingmann (from tēoðing ‘tithing’, a group of households, originally ten households, + mann ‘man’). According to the medieval system of frankpledge, every member of a tithing was responsible for every other, so that for example if one of them committed a crime the others had to help pay for it.
- English : from the Middle English, Old English personal name Tideman, composed of Old English tīd ‘time’, ‘season’ + mann ‘man’.
- Altered spelling of German Tittmann, a variant of Dittmann.