Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and German (Wesselmann) : elaborated form of Wessel.
- Dutch and German (Wesselmann) : habitational name for someone from Wessel in Westphalia or Wesseln near Hildesheim.
- Dutch and German (Wesselmann) : occupational name for a money changer, from Middle Low German wessele ‘trade’, ‘exchange’ + man ‘man’.