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Tilghman

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Tilchmann, an occupational name for someone who raised or tended trees, from Middle Low German telge ‘branch’, ‘young tree’, ‘seedling’.

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