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seaman Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Norfolk): from a medieval continuation of the Old English personal name S?mann, composed of the elements s? ‘sea’ + mann ‘man’.
  2. English: occupational name for a sailor.
  3. Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Seemann.

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

Distribution of seaman Families in the US in 1920
Number of seaman families
 408-813
 137-407
 1-136
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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