Wiman Family History
- Wiman Name Meaning
- English: variant spelling of Wyman. North German: perhaps an altered spelling of Weimann. Swedish: ornamental name from Old Norse viðr ‘forest’ + man ‘man’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 33,759 Historical Documents with Wiman on Ancestry
- 13,668 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,375 Census and Voter Lists
- 797 Military Records
- 1,566 Immigration Records
- 13,353 Member Trees
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Number of Wiman families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wiman 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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