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The backman Surname

backman Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or at the rear of a settlement, from Middle English bakke ‘back’, ‘spine’ + man ‘man’. Compare Backer.
  2. Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements back(e) ‘hill’ + man ‘man’.
  3. Swedish (Bäck(man)): ornamental name composed of the elements bäck ‘stream’ + man ‘man’.
  4. German: variant of Bachmann.
  5. German: occupational name for a baker or employee of a master baker, from backen ‘to bake’ + man(n) ‘man’. Compare Beckmann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of backman Families in the US in 1920
Number of backman families
 65-127
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Backmans in Baltimore denisglover 7
Lost cousins SusanReighard 0
Backmans in Wy. Cheryl 0
Oris dhbackman 0
Charles and Anna Backman dhbackman 1
obit - Luceda BACKMAN Fell, 1922 - 2006 LorraineGilmer02 0
BACKMAN, GERBER Patricia 0
south african Backman's from Germany' ross358 0
Charles O. Backman Brian E. Glennon 0
Hannah Eliza Backman 1841 Nova Scotia m. Hatt Terri Hamblin 0
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