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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Engelsmann) : ethnic name from Middle Low German Engelsman ‘person from England’.
  • German : nickname for a gentle person, from Middle High German engelsch ‘angelic’ + the personal suffix -man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Engelman.

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