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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a servant at a hall (see Hall).
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a hollow or nook, Middle English hale, Old English halh.
  • Swedish : compound of hall ‘hall’ + man ‘man’.
  • Respelling of German Hallmann, a variant of Hellmann.

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