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The wortman Surname

wortman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English wurt, wort ‘plant’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from Yiddish vort, German Wort ‘word’ + man, Mann ‘man’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Wortmann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wortman Families in the US in 1920
Number of wortman families
 45-88
 16-44		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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