Timmer Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Spellings drift, and Timmer is where Timmermann drifted for some families. In origin, the name means “Carpenter”.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Timmermann was also written Timmer. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Related forms: Timmerman, Timmermans and Timmermanns.

Surname statistics

3,054 Americans were listed as Timmer in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Timmer, so the heraldry linked to Timmermann is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Get the complete Timmer report, with a museum-style coat of arms.