Wyman
Usually a medieval personal-name surname, from an old English given name meaning roughly “warrior-man,” though some forms may also reflect Wymond.
The #3,265 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 27,938 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname Wyman is generally explained as coming from an old personal name, most often taken as Old English Wīgmann, from wīg “war” + mann “man,” giving the sense “warrior” or “soldier.” Some 19th-century scholars also treated it as a shortened or variant form of Wymond/Wymund, and medieval spelling could blur these names together. In practice, the surname may have arisen from more than one similar-sounding personal name.
History
Bardsley and Harrison both connect Wyman with older personal names rather than with a place-name or occupation in the later surname sense. The name appears in records under several spellings, including Wayman and Whyman, which reflects the loose medieval spelling of the same underlying name family. Later bearers of the surname helped fix Wyman as the standard modern form.
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Fun fact
Harrison glossed Wyman as essentially a “warrior” name, showing how many English surnames preserve very old pre-surname given names.
From the historical record
“WYLSON = Wilson, q.v. WYMAN (Eng.) i the A.-Sax. tVlgman(« = Warrior, Soldier [O.E. wig, war + r ' man(n\ 2 for Wymond, q.v, 3 coiif. with Whyman, q.v. WYIVIANS, Wymaiji's (Son).”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)