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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Baalmann) : from the personal name Bole, a popular medieval short form of Middle Low German Bol(d)ewin, from Germanic bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ + win ‘friend’. Compare Bahlman.

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