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The waterman Surname

waterman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for the servant of a man called Wa(l)ter (see Water 1).
  2. English and Dutch: occupational name for a boatman or a water carrier, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water (see Water 2).
  3. Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman(n), an occupational name for a water-carrier. Compare 2 above.

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

Distribution of waterman Families in the US in 1920
Number of waterman families
 244-486
 82-243		 1-81
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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