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The newman Surname

newman Name Meaning and History

English: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from Middle English newe ‘new’ + man ‘man’. This form has also absorbed several European cognates with the same meaning, for example Neumann. (For other forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The newman name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the newman family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of newman Families in the US in 1920
Number of newman families
 1350-2697
 451-1349		 1-450
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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