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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kalman.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Kohlmann.
  • Czech and Slovenian : from the medieval personal name Kolman, derived from the name of St. Columban, an Irish missionary to Europe (see Coleman).
  • Austrian German (Kolmann) : from the medieval personal name Coloman, altered at a later period by folk etymology to Kohlmann, as though derived from German Kohl ‘cabbage’ + Mann ‘man’.

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