Logeman

Logeman is a surname of English origin that has been recorded in parish registers and land deeds since the early sixteenth century. The name is thought to be a variant of the medieval occupational term *loggerman*, meaning a carpenter or woodworker who worked with firewood, or alternatively it may derive from the personal Middle English name *Logan*, which was associated with a person of rugged or wild character. In Ireland, the name is sometimes a variant of the O’Loghlen clan, though that derivation is rare.

Historically, the surname has been concentrated in the provinces of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with emigrants carrying the name across the Atlantic to British North America, Australia, and New Zealand during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By the early twentieth century census records in the United States, the name appeared most frequently in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio.

Notable individuals bearing the surname include the eighteenth‑century civil engineer Henry Logeman, who designed a number of small public works in northern England; the mid‑twentieth‑century Australian athlete and coach William Logeman, who competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; and the contemporary British author and playwright Eleanor Logeman, whose debut novel won the Whitbread Award in 2010. A minor naval vessel, the HMS Logeman, served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War as a minesweeping trawler.

Today, Logeman remains a relatively uncommon surname, with a modest number of occurrences in telephone directories and social‑media platforms. The name occasionally appears as a top–level domain or as a component of a company brand in the trade of timber products.