The Wiedmann Family Name

Genealogists group Wiedmann with Wiedemann. The family name meaning is “Church farmer”, the same as for Wiedemann.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Wiedemann and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

Wiedmann drops the “e” of Wiedemann, a shortening that clerks often made. Other spellings include Widmann.

In the 2010 US Census, 583 Americans gave Wiedmann as their last name (rank 38,050). That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. French birth records list 181 children named Wiedmann between 1891 and 2000. Births ran at 8 in 1891–1900 and 17 in 1991–2000. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Weidmann. For the full story, order the Wiedmann surname pack.