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The wellman Surname

wellman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Well, with the addition of man ‘man’, i.e. ‘man who lived by a stream’.
  2. Variant spelling of German Wellmann.
  3. Swedish: ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element (found as a place-name element, of various possible origins) + man ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wellman Families in the US in 1920
Number of wellman families
 74-146
 25-73
 1-24
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