Zimmerman (surname)
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Germanic |
| Meaning | Carpenter, room builder |
| Region of origin | Germany |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmer, Simmerman, Timmerman, Carpenter, Carpentier, Charpentier |
Zimmerman derives from the German last name Zimmermann, a related surname. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.
Zimmer in German means "room" or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German man or mann (in English the extra n is ignored) means "man" or "worker". Combining the two German words, you get "a worker of wood", or, literally translated, "room man" or "room worker".[1][2][3]
Within the United States, it is ranked as the 441st-most common surname.[4]
German names were regularly Anglicized with immigration. Surnames were often translated, so in this case, Zimmerman would become Carpenter. Later generations also altered their original family names frequently after being in the United States many years.
Zimmerman may refer to:
People
- Andrew Zimmerman (born 1968), American historian and academic
- Arnold Zimmerman (born 1954), American ceramic artist
- Arthur Augustus Zimmerman (1869–1936), American champion cyclist
- Arthur Zimmermann (1864–1940), State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire
- Benjamin Zimmerman (1862–1923), member of the Jewish emigration from Russia
- Charles A. Zimmermann (1861–1916), American bandmaster and composer
- Charles H. Zimmerman (1908–1996), aeronautical engineer
- Charles S. Zimmerman (1896–1983), American socialist activist and trade union official
- Dean Zimmerman, American philosopher, academic, and author
- Dick Zimmerman (born 1937), American magician and pianist
- Elyn Zimmerman (born 1945), American sculptor
- Eric Zimmerman (born 1969), American computer game designer
- Eugene Zimmerman (1862-1935), American cartoonist
- Franklin B. Zimmerman (born 1923), American musicologist
- Frederick Hinde Zimmerman (born 1864), farmer and businessman
- Fred R. Zimmerman (1880–1954), governor of Wisconsin
- George J. Zimmermann (1882–1938), American mayor of Buffalo, New York
- George M. Zimmerman (born 1983), shot and killed Trayvon Martin
- George O. Zimmerman (born 1935), Polish-American scientist and professor
- Heinie Zimmerman (1887–1969), American baseball player
- Herman F. Zimmerman (born 1935), art director and production designer
- Howard Zimmerman (1926 – 2012), professor of chemistry
- Jacob Zimmerman (1831-1912), newspaper editor and owner, politician, and businessman
- James Edward Zimmerman (1923–1999), American physicist
- Jason Zimmerman (born 1989), professional game player under the pseudonym Mew2King
- Jeff Zimmerman (American football) (born 1965), American football player
- Jeff Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born baseball pitcher
- Jeri Zimmerman, birth name of Jeri Ryan, (born 1968), American actor
- J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr. (1871–1948), American theater manager and stage producer
- J. Fred Zimmerman, Sr. (1841–1925), American theater owner
- Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist and James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
- Joel Zimmerman (born 1981), progressive house artist known as Deadmau5
- John Zimmerman (politician), mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- John Zimmerman (figure skater) (born 1973), American figure skater
- Jordan Zimmerman (born 1975), professional baseball pitcher
- Joseph Paul "Joey" Zimmerman (born 1986), American actor
- Joshua Soule Zimmerman (1874–1962), American lawyer, politician, and orchardist
- Kris Zimmerman, American voice actor and voice-over director
- Leo Wrye Zimmerman (1924–2008), abstract artist
- Mary Zimmerman, American dramatist
- Matt Zimmerman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michael E. Zimmerman (born 1946), American philosopher, academic, and author
- Michael Zimmerman (historian) (1951–2007), German chronicler
- Michael Zimmerman (biologist) (born 1953), American biologist and professor
- Nancy Zimmerman, American hedge fund manager
- Oscar Zimmerman (1910–1987), American classical musician
- Patric Zimmerman (born 1954), American voice actor
- Paul Zimmerman (born 1932), American football sportswriter known as "Dr. Z"
- Paul D. Zimmerman (1938-1993), American screenwriter, film critic and activist
- Peter Zimmerman (born 1941), American nuclear physicist and academic
- Philip Zimmerman (born 1945), American iconographer
- Preston Zimmerman (born 1988), American footballer for Hamburg SV II
- Rachel Zimmerman (born ca 1973), Canadian-born space scientist and inventor
- Robert Allen Zimmerman, birth name of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter
- Robert C. Zimmerman (1910–1996), Wisconsin Secretary of State
- Robert D Zimmerman (born 1952), American author of mysteries, psychological thrillers, and children's books
- Roy Zimmerman (baseball) (1916–1991), baseball player
- Roy Zimmerman (satirist) (born 1957), American singer/songwriter/guitarist
- Ryan Zimmerman (born 1984), American baseball player
- Samuel Zimmerman (1815–1857), Canadian railway entrepreneur
- Shannon Zimmerman, American businessman and politician
- Sheldon Zimmerman (born 1942), American Reform rabbi
- Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, American rabbi
- Steven Zimmerman, American organic chemist and professor
- Thomas Zimmerman (1838–1914), German-American writer and translator
- Trent Zimmerman (born 1968), Australian politician
- Urs Zimmerman (born 1959), Swiss road racing cyclist
- Vernon K. Zimmerman (born 1928), American accounting scholar
- William Carbys Zimmerman (1856–1932), American architect
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
- Jára Cimrman, a Czech character of a universal genius
Places in the United States
- Zimmerman, Minnesota, a city in Sherburne County
- Zimmerman, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Somerset County
- Zimmerman Kame, an archeological site in Ohio's Hardin County
See also
- Zimmerman (disambiguation), for places
- Zimerman, a surname
- Zimmermann (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Zimmerman
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; <"Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2006.
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- ^ Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, 2001-2010, accessed April 13, 2010.
- ^ U.S. Census Bureau; "Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, (Table) Name Files dist.all.last"; published May 9, 1995; <"Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 12, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2006.
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