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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Yiddish kil ‘cool’ + man ‘man’.
  • Scottish : variant of Kelman.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Killmann (see Killman).

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