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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Billmann) : variant of Bellmann see Bellman 2, or a name denoting a dweller by the Bille river near Hamburg.
  • Perhaps a respelling of Swiss German Bielmann, a variant of Biehler, itself a variant of Buehler.
  • English (East Anglia) : possibly an occupational name for someone who made or used billhooks. Compare Biller.

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