Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a wool worker (see Wool).
  • Respelling of the German cognate Wollmann.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a wool worker, from Yiddish vol, German Wolle ‘wool’ + Yiddish man, German Mann ‘man’.

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