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Kesselman

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a coppersmith or maker of copper cooking vessels, from German Kessel ‘kettle’, ‘cauldron’ + the agent suffix -man(n).
  • German (Kesselmann) : habitational name from any of several places named Kessel in Bavaria, Rhineland, Pomerania, or Silesia (see Kessel).

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