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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Wohlmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German, Middle Low German wol ‘pleasant’, or from modern German Wohl ‘well-being’ (see Wohl), with the addition of Middle High German, Yiddish mann ‘man’.

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