Zimmermann

Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.

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Surname.name: Zimmermann
Surname.meaning: Carpenter, room builder
Surname.language: Germanic
Surname.variant: See the navigation box at the bottom

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Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.

A variant of Zimmermann is Zimmerman. Other variants include Zimmermanns, Timmermann, Cymerman and Cimrman.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zimmermann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.