Niman Family History
- Niman Name Meaning
- English: variant of Newman. Americanized form of various European cognates with the same meaning, for example Neumann. (For other forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,258 Historical Documents with Niman on Ancestry
- 5,860 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,135 Census and Voter Lists
- 774 Military Records
- 575 Immigration Records
- 3,914 Member Trees
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Number of Niman families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Niman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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