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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (frequent in Württemberg) : from Adalman, an Old High German personal name meaning literally ‘noble man’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Adelman.
  • Hans Michael Adelmann came to PA from Löwenstein-Wertheim in 1752.

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