Yeoman Family History

Yeoman Name Meaning

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.topographic name, an expanded form of Yeo.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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