What is the origin of the surname 'Hitschmann'?

Question:Spelled exactly as Hitschmann, the families in the US Censuses 1900-1930 gave their European origin as Austria.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Spelled exactly as Hitschmann, the families in the US Censuses 1900-1930 gave their European origin as Austria.

I won't insult you by asking whether you're sure what your own name is, but there's a German-American name HiBschman, originally Huebschmann, whcih means literally "pretty man.'' It's sometimes even translated as just that--Prettyman--although, according to George Fenwick Jones's German American Family Names (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1990), it actually means "courtier."

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