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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Öhlmann) : occupational name for a seller of culinary oil, from Middle High German öl, ol ‘oil’ + man ‘man’. Compare Ohler.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name derived from Odal, from od ‘wealth’.
  • North German : nickname from ōle, olde ‘old’ + man ‘man’. Compare Old.

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