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The yeoman Surname

yeoman Name Meaning and History

  1. status name, from Middle English yoman, yeman, used of an attendant of relatively high status in a noble household, ranking between a Sergeant and a Groom, or between a Squire and a Page. The word appears to derive from a compound of Old English geong ‘young’ + mann ‘man’. Later in the Middle English period it came to be used of a modest independent freeholder, and this latter sense may well lie behind some examples of the surname.
  2. topographic name, an expanded form of Yeo.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of yeoman Families in the US in 1920
Number of yeoman families
 20-38
 7-19		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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