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Updated January 17, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a carpenter, Middle High German zimbermann (a compound of zimber, zim(m)er ‘timber’, ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’), German Zimmermann.

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