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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a bell ringer, in particular one whose duty was to make public announcements, after ringing a bell to attract attention. Compare Bell.
  • Americanized or Swedish spelling of German Bellmann, a North German habitational name from Belle in Westphalia, Bell in the Rhineland, or Bellen near Bremen.

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