The huntsman Surname
huntsman Name Meaning and History
English: occupational name for a hunter or a huntsman’s
servant. The second element is Middle English man ‘man’,
‘servant’, while the first is either from Old English hunta
‘hunter’ or Middle English hunte ‘a hunt’. In some cases it is
probably from an unattested Old English personal name, Huntmann
(a compound of hunta ‘hunter’ + mann ‘man’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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