Frequency: (109)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Jewish (from Ukraine): variant of Selman.
2. German (Zillmann): variant of Zill 1, with the addition of Middle High German man ‘man’.
GIVEN NAME Jewish 4%. Herschel (2).
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