齐默尔曼来自德语的Zimmermann，意为木匠，也是姓氏。美国也有一个姓氏有一样的音译名称，在英语拼写为Zimmerman。齐默尔曼可以指：

Zimmermann is a German occupational surname which is literally an older German term for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.

Zimmer in German means room or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German man or mann is, in English the extra n is ignored, man or worker. Combining the two German words you get a worker of wood or literally translated room man or room worker.