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Surname Etymology and Meaning of LAYMAN

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1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of (fallow) arable land, Middle English leye.
2. Americanized spelling of German Lehmann.
3. German: variant of Lay 3.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)