Backman Family History
- Backman Name Meaning
- English (mainly northern): topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or at the rear of a settlement, from Middle English bakke ‘back’, ‘spine’ + man ‘man’. Compare Backer. Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements back(e) ‘hill’ + man ‘man’. Swedish (Bäck(man)): ornamental name composed of the elements bäck ‘stream’ + man ‘man’. German: variant of Bachmann. German: occupational name for a baker or employee of a master baker, from backen ‘to bake’ + man(n) ‘man’. Compare Beckmann.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 202,739 Historical Documents with Backman on Ancestry
- 98,072 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 31,352 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,893 Military Records
- 12,453 Immigration Records
- 56,969 Member Trees
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Number of Backman families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Backman families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Backman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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