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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Appelmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle Low German appel ‘apple’ + man ‘man’, an occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.
  • Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch apelmanger ‘apple seller’.

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