Selman Family History
Selman Name Meaning
English: nickname for a happy or fortunate man, from Middle
English seely ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’ + man, German
Mann ‘man’.English: from the Middle English female
personal name Seely (see Seeley 1), or of the nickname
Sele (see Seal 4) + man ‘servant’, hence an
occupational name for a servant employed by a bearer of either of
these names.Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name
Zelman, a pet form of Zalmen (see Salmon).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Selman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Selman families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Selman families
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67 - 132 23 - 66 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Selman families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Selman Family Origin
Selman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Selman
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Selman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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