Neumann
also Naumann
'The new man' — the stranger who stayed.
- Origin
- German
- Register
- German family
The seat of Neumann
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Neumann community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Neumann has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Neumann clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Neumann clan →What does the Neumann name mean?
Descriptive — 'the new man', Middle High German niuwe + mann — the newcomer to a village or a freshly taken holding. Cognate of English Newman.
The history of Neumann
In a settled village everyone knew everyone, so the arrival of a stranger was an event, and the simplest possible by-name fixed him: der neue Mann, the new man, marked off from the families who had always been there. It hardened into one of the common descriptive surnames of the German lands.
There is a quiet aptness in a name meaning 'newcomer' becoming, so often, an immigrant's name — carried to the New World where, once more, its bearer was the new man. It survives in the diaspora as Neumann or the anglicised Newman.
Explore With Your Ancestors · Beta
Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the Neumann country, or a shore no Neumann ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.