Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Selman.
- North German (Sellmann) : topographic name from Middle Low German sele ‘meadow’, ‘bog’ + man ‘man’.
- South German : occupational name for a middleman in a land or property sale or for a guardian, from Middle High German sale ‘property transfer’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Selman.