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Wortman Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of
vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English
wurt, wort ‘plant’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname
for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from
Yiddish vort, German Wort ‘word’ + man,
Mann ‘man’.Americanized spelling of German
Wortmann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wortman Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wortman families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wortman families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wortman census records
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Wortman Family Origin
Wortman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wortman
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Wortman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wortman census records
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Wortman Civil War Service Records
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