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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic), French (of German origin), and Dutch : habitational name from the city of Mannheim in southwestern Germany (formerly the residence of the electors Palatine), so named from the Germanic personal name Manno (see Mann 2) + Old High German heim ‘homestead’. Mannheim was not fortified or chartered until the beginning of the 17th century, until which time it was just a small fishing village.

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