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allman Name Meaning and History

  1. English (frequent in eastern England): ethnic name from Norman French aleman ‘German’ or alemayne ‘Germany’ (Late Latin Alemannus and Alemannia, from a Germanic tribal name that probably originally meant ‘all the men’). In some cases the surname may be from the region of Normandy known as Allemagne (south of Caen), probably named as a Germanic-speaking enclave in a Celtic area in Roman times. In North America, the form Allman has probably absorbed some cases of cognates from other languages, in particular Spanish Aleman and French Alleman.
  2. German (Allmann): variant of Allemann (see Alleman) or in some cases probably an Americanized form of the same name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of allman Families in the US in 1920
Number of allman families
 57-112
 20-56
 1-19
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