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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or nickname from German, Yiddish gut ‘good’ + man(n) ‘man’; it was also used as a male personal name, from which the surname may be derived in some cases.
  • Americanized spelling of German Gut(h)mann (see Guthman).

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