Winterman Family History

English (Kent and Middlesex): occupational name or status name denoting a servant of a man named Winter. English (Kent and Middlesex): alternatively perhaps a nickname denoting a person with a cold wintry appearance or disposition. English (Kent and Middlesex): occasionally perhaps an occupational name for a wine merchant or a wine merchant's servant from a variant of Middle English and Anglo-Norman French viniter vinter ‘wine merchant’ (modern English vintner) + man ‘man’.

Americanized form of North German Wintermann: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Winter in Lower Saxony, Hesse, or Rhineland or a topographic name for someone from the north (i.e. cold) side of a settlement or valley from Middle Low German, Middle High German winter ‘winter’ + -man ‘man’.

Dutch: variant of Winter 2 with -man ‘man’.