Zimmerman (surname)
| Zimmerman | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Meaning | Carpenter, room builder |
| Related names | Zimmer (surname), Zimmermann, Simmerman, Carpenter, Charpentier, Carpentier, Timmerman |
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] 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".[2][3][4]
German names were regularly Anglicized with immigration. Surnames were often translated, so in this case, Zimmerman would become Carpenter. Sometimes modification was done by immigration officials upon entry into the United States if the immigrant was illiterate. The official would simply write down what they heard according to their own spelling rules, and that would become their legal name. Later generations also altered their original family names frequently after being in the United States many years.
- Simmerman - a variant of Zimmerman.
- Timmerman - Dutch variant of Zimmerman.
- A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.
Zimmerman may refer to:
People
- Andrew Zimmerman (born 1968), American historian and academic who specializes in Imperial Germany
- Arnold Zimmerman (born 1954), American ceramic artist
- Arthur Augustus Zimmerman (1869–1936), American champion cyclist
- Arthur Zimmermann (October 5, 1864 – June 6, 1940) was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from November 22, 1916, until his resignation on August 6, 1917.
- Benjamin Zimmerman (1862 – 1923) and his family were part of the Jewish immigration from Russia
- Charles A. Zimmermann (1861–1916), American bandmaster and composer of marches ("Anchors Aweigh")
- Charles H. Zimmerman (1908 – 1996), was an 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
- Eric Zimmerman (born 1969), American computer game designer
- Franklin B. Zimmerman (born 1923), American musicologist who compiled a definitive catalogue of Henry Purcell's compositions
- Frederick Hinde Zimmerman (born 1864), farmer, businessman, and owner of the Grand Rapids Hotel.
- Fred R. Zimmerman (1880–1954), American public official who served as 25th governor of Wisconsin (1927–29)
- George J. Zimmermann (1882–1938), an American mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving 1934–1937
- George M. Zimmerman (born 1983), involved in the Shooting of Trayvon Martin
- George O. Zimmerman (born 1935), a Polish-American scientist and professor emeritus at Boston University
- Heinie Zimmerman (1887–1969), American baseball player
- Herman F. Zimmerman (born 1935), art director and production designer. Best known for work on Star Trek.
- Howard Zimmerman (1926 – 2012) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Jacob Zimmerman (born 1831), newspaper editor, newspaper owner, Illinois politician, mine owner, real estate entrepreneur, and businessman.
- James Edward Zimmerman (1923–1999), American physicist who co-invented superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)
- Jeff Zimmerman (American football) (born 1965), American offensive lineman in NFL for four seasons
- Jeff Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born Major League Baseball pitcher
- Jeri Zimmerman, birth name of Jeri Ryan, (born 1968), American actress
- J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr. (1871–1948), American theater manager and stage producer
- J. Fred Zimmerman, Sr. (1841–1925), American theater owner and leader of the Theatrical Syndicate
- Joel Zimmerman (born 1981), progressive house artist known as Deadmau5
- John Zimmerman (politician), mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1856 to 1857
- John Zimmerman (figure skater) (born 1973), American figure skater
- Jordan Zimmerman (born Canada 1975) is a former professional baseball pitcher
- Joseph Paul "Joey" Zimmerman (born 1986), American actor
- Joshua Soule Zimmerman (1874–1962), American lawyer, politician, and orchardist
- Karl H. Timmerman (born 1922) First American officer across Ludendorff Bridge
- Kris Zimmerman, American voice actor/voice-over director for animation and video games
- Leo Wrye Zimmerman, (1924–2008) abstract artist who founded The Society for the Arts in Louisville
- Mary Zimmerman, American dramatist
- Matt Zimmerman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michael E. Zimmerman (born 1946), American philosopher, academic and author specializing in integral theory
- Michael Zimmerman (historian) (1951–2007), German chronicler of events surrounding Hitler's genocide of Europe's ethnic Roma
- Michael Zimmerman (biologist) (born 1953), American academic who is Professor of Biology at Indianapolis' Butler University
- Oscar Zimmerman (1910–1987), American classical musician known for his mastery of the double bass
- Patric Zimmerman (born 1954), American voice actor
- Paul Zimmerman (born 1932), American football sportswriter known as "Dr. Z"
- 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
- Robert Allen Zimmerman, birth name of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer-songwriter
- Robert C. Zimmerman (1910–1996), American public official who served as Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1957 to 1975
- Robert D Zimmerman (born 1952), American author of mysteries, psychological thrillers and children's books
- Roy Zimmerman (baseball) (1916–1991), Major League Baseball first baseman
- Roy Zimmerman (satirist) (born 1957), American singer/songwriter/guitarist based in Southern California
- Ryan Zimmerman (born 1984), American baseball player
- Samuel Zimmerman (1815–1857), Canadian railway entrepreneur
- Sheldon Zimmerman (born 1942), American Reform rabbi who was President of Hebrew Union College from 1996 to 2000
- Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, American rabbi who has served in New York and, since 2008, in English town of Gateshead
- Steven Zimmerman, American organic chemist who is Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Thomas Zimmerman (1838–1914), German-American writer and translator in Pennsylvania who was editor of Reading Times newspaper
- 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, one of the greatest Czech playwrights, poets, composers, teachers, travellers, philosophers, inventors, detectives, mathematicians and sportsmen of the 19th and early 20th century.
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; <http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last>
- ↑ 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>
- ↑ Combined from several sources including: Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, 2001-2010, accessed April 13, 2010.