Gohman
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Frequency: (196)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Altered spelling of German Gö(h)mann, a nickname for a farmer or country dweller, from Middle High German göu, geu ‘region’, ‘country’ + man ‘man’ (see Gau 1), or, in the north, possibly a topographic name from the field name An der Gö ‘at the water meadow’.
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