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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Selman.
  • German (Sillmann) : possibly a variant of Sieler, or a topographic name for someone living on a ridge, from Low German süll, sill ‘sill’, ‘threshold’, ‘ramp’.

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