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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Selman.
  • North German (Sellmann) : topographic name from Middle Low German sele ‘meadow’, ‘bog’ + man ‘man’.
  • South German : occupational name for a middleman in a land or property sale or for a guardian, from Middle High German sale ‘property transfer’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Selman.

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