About the Timmerman Surname

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Timmerman, so the heraldry linked to Timmermann is a starting point, not an automatic right.

What Timmerman means

Timmerman is a spelling of the German surname Timmermann. Name scholars give the meaning as “Carpenter”.

Timmerman drops the “n” of Timmermann, a shortening that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. In the 2010 US Census, 7,569 Americans gave Timmerman as their last name (rank 4,688). French birth records list 1,152 children named Timmerman between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

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