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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Kielmann) : variant of Kiel 1, with the addition of -man(n) ‘man’.
  • German (Kielmann) : possibly a variant of Kilian.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from the place-name element kil- ‘wedge’ + man ‘man’.

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