Schwemmer Family History
Schwemmer Name Meaning
German:: occupational name for someone who floated logs downstream from the forests where they were felled from an agent derivative of Middle High German swemmen causative of swimmen ‘to float or swim’. topographic name from Middle High German swem(me) denoting a deep ford where horses had to swim across (from the same word as in ). habitational name for someone from any of the places called Schwemm or Schwemme.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022