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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