North German: from Middle Low German hoveman, status
name for a farmer who owned his own land as opposed to holding it by
rent or feudal obligation, from hove ‘settlement’, ‘farm’,
‘court’ + man ‘man’.
German: from an assimilated form of
Hanemann, from an aphetic form of the personal name
Johann(es) + Middle High German man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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