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The spellman Surname

spellman Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a musician or minstrel, from Middle Low German spel ‘play’ + man ‘man’.
  2. German (Spellmann): habibtational name for someone from Spelle near Rheine or Spellen near Wesel.
  3. English: variant of Speller.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of spellman Families in the US in 1920
Number of spellman families
 102-202
 35-101		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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