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Man Family History

Man Name Meaning
Chinese : variant of Wen 2.Chinese : from a character in the personal name of Hu Gongman, a retainer of Wu Wang. After the latter established the Zhou dynasty in 1122 bc, he granted the state of Chen to Hu Gongman, whose descendants adopted the second character of his given name, Man, as their surname. This character also means ‘Manchurian’, but the name does not appear to be related to this meaning.Chinese : variant of Wen 3.Chinese : variant of Wan 1.English and Jewish: variant spelling of Mann.Dutch: from Middle Dutch man ‘man’, ‘husband’, ‘vassal’, ‘arbiter’.French: from the Germanic personal name Manno (see Mann 2).Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name Man, derived from Yiddish ‘man’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

259,927 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Man
61,607 Census and Voter Lists
19,666 Immigration Records
57,893 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
114,720 Member Family Trees
6,041 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Man Families

  • Number of Man families
     35 - 68
     12 - 34
     1 - 11
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
  • Number of Man families
     66 - 129
     23 - 65
     1 - 22
     
    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
  • Number of Man families
     9 - 15
     4 - 8
     1 - 3
     
    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Man Family Origin

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Man Immigration Information

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Man Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

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