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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Kalman.
  • Swedish (Källman) : ornamental name composed of the elements källa ‘spring’, ‘source’ + man ‘man’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kallmann, from the medieval personal name Gallus (see Gall).

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