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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : To injure; to oppress

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name from taelman, taleman ‘lawyer’, ‘orator’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German (Thalmann) : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, composed of the elements tal ‘valley’ + man ‘man’. Compare Dallmann.

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