A German surname, the Zimmerman family name refers to a person who builds, a carpenter.
The Middle High German term of ‘zimber’ mans wood and ‘mann’ means man.

Spelling variations include Simmerman, Zimmermann, Timmermann, Timmer, Zimerman and Zimmer.

The area of Prussia was the first location for the Zimmerman families.
Germany and Austria have sizable numbers of Zimmerman families.

English counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire and in the city of London are where most with the Zimmermann surname live. Just in Lanarkshire county in Scotland is there any sizable population of Zimmerman individuals.

Within the United States the Zimmerman surname is in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Missouri.

Famous: Charles A. Zimmerman (19th century composer of marches and a bandmaster), Heinie Zimmerman (professional baseball player), Joey Zimmerman (actor), Paul ‘Dr. Z’ Zimmerman (football sports writer), Robert D. Zimmerman (mystery writer), Oscar Zimmerman (classical bass musician), John Zimmerman (figure skater) and Han Rudolf Zimmerman (architect of a church in Snowy Mountains in Australia).