Coleman Family History
Coleman Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Colmáin
‘descendant of Colmán’. This was the name of an Irish
missionary to Europe, generally known as St. Columban
(c.540–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern
Italy in 614. With his companion St. Gall, he enjoyed a considerable
cult throughout central Europe, so that forms of his name were adopted
as personal names in Italian (Columbano), French
(Colombain), Czech (Kollman), and Hungarian
(Kálmán). From all of these surnames are derived. In
Irish and English, the name of this saint is identical with
diminutives of the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English
as St. Columba (521–97), who converted the Picts to Christianity,
and who was known in Scandinavian languages as
Kalman.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Clumháin ‘descendant of Clumhán’, a personal name
from the diminutive of clúmh ‘down’, ‘feathers’.English: occupational name for a burner of charcoal or a gatherer
of coal, Middle English coleman, from Old English col
‘(char)coal’ + mann ‘man’.English: occupational name for
the servant of a man named Cole.Jewish (Ashkenazic):
Americanized form of Kalman.Americanized form of
German Kohlmann or Kuhlmann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Coleman Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coleman families
 1,539 - 3,075  514 - 1,538 |
 1 - 513  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coleman families
|
70 - 138 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Coleman Family Origin
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Coleman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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