Redman Family History
Redman Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English red (Old English hrēod) ‘reed’ + -man presumably for a thatcher or reed-cutter. Compare Reeder . English: in southeastern England sometimes a topographic name perhaps for someone who lived by a clearing from Middle English rede (Old English rēod rȳd) ‘clearing’ + man. English: habitational name from Redmain (Cumberland) from Old English rēad ‘red’ + an uncertain second element perhaps a dialect form of man ‘cairn’. Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German Rothman Rothmann Rotman Rottmann Roitman or Reitman .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022