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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Dole or of Doll.
  • Dutch : nickname for a stupid person.
  • Americanized spelling of German Dollmann (see Dollman).
  • Hungarian Dolmán : variant of Dolmány, metonymic occupational name or nickname from dolmány ‘embroidered coat’, named after a Szekler village in Transylvania called Dolmán. In some cases this may be an Americanized spelling of Dolmáni, habitational name for someone from the village itself.

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