Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Gollmann : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Golm in eastern Germany.
  • Americanized spelling of German Gollmann : status name for someone in feudal bondage to a lord or to the Church, from Middle High German goll ‘feudal bondage’ (from Latin collata ‘bondage’, ‘obligation’) + man ‘man’.

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