Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Kalman.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Kohlmann.
- Czech and Slovenian : from the medieval personal name Kolman, derived from the name of St. Columban, an Irish missionary to Europe (see Coleman).
- Austrian German (Kolmann) : from the medieval personal name Coloman, altered at a later period by folk etymology to Kohlmann, as though derived from German Kohl ‘cabbage’ + Mann ‘man’.