Zimmerman
Appearance
Origin | |
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Word/name | Germanic, Teutonic |
Meaning | Carpenter, room builder |
Other names | |
Related names | Zimmer, Zimmermann, Simmerman, Carpenter, Charpentier, Carpentier |
Zimmerman derives from the German last name Zimmermann which means carpenter. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 441st-most common surname.[1]
Zimmerman is often confused with [[Zimmermann]dd]. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations.[2]
- Simmerman - a variant of Zimmerman.
- A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.
Zimmerman may refer to:
People
- Andrew Zimmerman (born 1968), historian
- Arnold Zimmerman (born 1954), American ceramic artist
- Arthur Augustus Zimmerman (1869–1936), cyclist
- A.E. Zimmerman, Dutch politician, burgomaster of Leeuwarden and Zutphen
- Charles A. Zimmerman (1861–1916), bandmaster of USNA and composer of "Anchors Aweigh"
- Charles S. Zimmerman (1896-1983), American socialist activist and trade union official
- Dean Zimmerman, American philosopher
- Dick Zimmerman (born 1937), magician and pianist
- Eric Zimmerman, computer game designer
- Franklin B. Zimmerman, musicologist, author of definitive catalogue of Henry Purcell[3]
- Fred R. Zimmerman (1880–1954), Wisconsin politician
- Hans Rudolf Zimmerman, Australian architect
- Heinie Zimmerman (1887–1969), American baseball player
- James Edward Zimmerman (1923–1999), co-inventor of the SQUID
- Joel Zimmerman (born 1981), progressive house artist known as Deadmau5
- John Zimmerman (born 1973), American figure skater
- John C. Zimmerman, historian from University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Jeff Zimmerman (born 1972), MLB baseball player
- Jeri Zimmerman (born 1968), American actress
- Joseph Zimmerman, inventor of the first successful answering machine
- Joseph Zimmerman, Cologne Cathedral organist
- Joseph Paul Zimmerman (born 1986), American actor
- Kris Zimmerman, American voice actor/voice-over director for animation and video games
- Mary Zimmerman, American dramatist
- Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor
- Matt Zimmerman (technologist), computer specialist and Ubuntu leader
- Michael Zimmerman (biologist)
- Michael Zimmerman (historian)
- Michael Zimmerman (philosopher)
- Oscar G. Zimmerman (1910–1987), double bass player
- Patric Zimmerman (born 1954), American voice actor
- Paul Zimmerman (born 1932), sportswriter
- Peter Zimmerman, survivor of a crashed airlift flight out of Berlin, Germany
- Philip Zimmerman, American iconographer
- Preston Zimmerman (born 1988), American footballer for Hamburg SV II
- Robert Zimmerman (commentator) a CNN contributor, Democratic strategist, and Democratic National Committeeman
- Robert Allen Zimmerman, birth name of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter
- Robert C. Zimmerman, Wisconsin Secretary of State
- Robert D Zimmerman, American author
- Roy Zimmerman (baseball) (1916–1991), Major League Baseball first baseman
- Roy Zimmerman, American songwriter
- Ryan Zimmerman (born 1984), American baseball player
- Samuel Zimmerman (1815–1857), Canadian railway entrepreneur
- Sheldon Zimmerman, American Reform Rabbi and former President of the Hebrew Union College
- Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Gateshead
- Steven C. Zimmerman, Chemist with Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Fictional characters
- Lewis Zimmerman, creator of the Emergency Medical Hologram in the Star Trek series
- Dr. Zimmerman, former employee of the Company in the Heroes series
Places
In the United States:
- Zimmerman, Minnesota, in Sherburne County
- Zim, Minnesota, in St. Louis County
- Zimmerman Kame, an archeological site in Hardin County, Ohio, United States
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau; "Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, (Table) Name Files dist.all.last"; published May 9, 1995; <http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last>
- ^ Zimmerman - Zimmermann name history - http://www.ancestry.com/facts/zimmerman-family-history.ashx
- ^ See.