Dolman Family History

English: topographic name denoting a ‘dweller by the boundary mark’ (compare Dole). English: nickname for a ‘dull foolish man’. Compare Doll.

Dutch: topographic name from dol ‘swampy land’ + man ‘man’ or a nickname from the adjective dol ‘wild fierce rash foolish’ for such a man.

Americanized form of German Dollmann (see Dollman). Hungarian (Dolmán): variant of Dolmány, a metonymic occupational name or nickname from dolmány ‘embroidered coat’ named after a Szekler village in Transylvania called Dolmán.

In some cases this may be an Americanized form of Dolmáni, a habitational name for someone from the village itself.