Wintermann Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Behind the Wintermann surname stands Winter, a German name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way.

Wintermann is built on the same root as Winter, with the ending -mann. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

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