Newman Family History
Newman Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Newman
Name Distribution of Newman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Newman families
 1,350 - 2,697  451 - 1,349 |
 1 - 450  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Newman families
|
2,653 - 5,303 885 - 2,652 |
1 - 884 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Newman families
|
28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Newman Family Origin
Newman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Newman
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Newman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Newman census records
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Newman Civil War Service Records
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