Manner Family History
Manner Name Meaning
German (also Männer): occupational name from Middle High German mener ‘cattle driver’. Compare Maenner and Maner . English: perhaps a variant of Manners . Finnish: ornamental name from manner ‘land mainland’. Adopted in the early 20th century name-changing campaigns mainly in southwestern Finland to replace Swedish Finnish and Russian surnames (compare Laine ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022