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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 156,492 Historical Documents with Selman on Ancestry
- 51,263 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 29,196 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,024 Military Records
- 3,275 Immigration Records
- 68,734 Member Trees
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Number of Selman families
 67 - 132  23 - 66 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Selman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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