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’.