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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for a musician, tumbler or jester, from spelen ‘to play’ + man ‘man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a musician, from German Spielmann ‘minstrel’, ‘musician’.
  • Altered spelling of German Spielmann.

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