Explore the Family Name Winterman

The meaning of Winterman

1. English (Kent and Middlesex): occupational name or status name denoting a servant of a man named Winter 1. 2. English (Kent and Middlesex): alternatively, perhaps a nickname denoting a person with a cold, wintry appearance or disposition. 3. 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’. 4. 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’. 5. Dutch: variant of Winter 2 with -man ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.