About the Gutman Surname

Genealogists group Gutman with Gutmann. At root, the name means “Good man”. Without the “n” of Gutmann, Gutman is a simpler written form of the same name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The same family of names includes Gutmans, Guttman and Gūtmanis.

The 2010 US Census counted 3,056 people named Gutman, ranking it number 10,499 among American surnames. INSEE counts 163 people born in France with the Gutman surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1931–1940.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Gutman, so the heraldry linked to Gutmann is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Gutman family name pack.