Shimmin Family History
Shimmin Name Meaning
Manx (Isle of Man): from a shortened form of Gaelic mac ‘son of’ + the Old Norse personal name Sigmundr (from sigr ‘victory’ + mundr ‘hand; bride-price’) usually rendered as Simon(d) in the later medieval period. English: nickname apparently from an unrecorded Middle English shiming (Old English sciming) ‘bright attractive person’ a derivative of the Old English root scim- ‘shine’ (compare the verb shimmer) + the noun-forming suffix -ing. The word may also have been used as a personal name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022