First name origin & meaning: Old English: Newcomer First name variations: Neuman, Neumann, Numen, Newmie Last name origin & meaning: 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.) Famous people with this last name:
Laraine Newman,
Paul Newman
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