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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of German Appelmann (see Appelman).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of the German Jewish surname Apfelmann ‘apple man’, an ornamental name or a metonymic occupational name for a seller of the fruit.

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