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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : respelling of German Kahl(e)mann, a nickname for a bald man (from Middle High German kal(wes) ‘bald’ + man ‘man’), or possibly of German Kallman.
  • altered spelling of Hungarian Kálmán (see Kalman).

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