as a Last Name
- 115,946
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Newman
Meaning & Origins
English: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from Middle English newe ‘new’ + man ‘man’. This form has also absorbed several European cognates with the same meaning, for example Neumann. (For other forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
| 263rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 115,946
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Newman per capita
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