Angerman
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Angerman
Frequency: (197)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Swedish (also Angermann): shortened form of the Latinized regional name Angermannius ‘man from the county of Ångermanland’.
2. German (Angermann): topographic name for a dweller by a meadow or by a village green, from Middle High German anger ‘meadow’, ‘village green’ + man ‘man’.
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