Where did the last name Coleman originate from?

Question

Where did the last name Coleman originate from?

Answer 1

You will find this site very interesting, if you have Irish roots :-

http://www.colemans.net.au/genealogy10.h...

and

http://www.colemans.net.au/Synopsis.htm

and

http://colemanfamily.org/

and from

http://homepage.eircom.net/~kthomas/name...

COLEMAN

Although Coleman is a common surname in England, where it is occupational, denoting a burner of charcoal, in Ireland the name is almost always of native Irish origin and generally comes from the personal name Colman, a version of the Latin Columba, meaning ‘dove’. Its popularity as a personal name was due to the two sixth-century Irish missionary saints of the name, in particular St Columban, who founded monasteries in many places throughout central Europe and whose name is the source of many similar European surnames: Kolman (Czech), Kalman (Hungarian), Columbano (Italian). The original homeland of the Irish O Colmain was in the barony of Tireragh in Co Sligo, and the surname is still quite common in this area. In the other region where the surname is now plentiful, Co Cork, it has a different origin, as an anglicisation of the Irish O Clumhain, which has also been commonly rendered as ‘Clifford’.

Answer 2

outdoor campers?

Answer 3

Ireland or England

Answer 4

www.ancestry.com

Coleman Name Meaning and History

1.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó O'Colmain ,‘descendant of Colman’. This was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe, generally known as St. Columban (c.540–615 AD), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy in 614 AD. 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 (Kalman). 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-–97AD), who converted the Picts to Christianity, and who was known in Scandinavian languages as Kalman.

2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic ÓO'Clumhain ,‘descendant of Clumhan’, a personal name from the diminutive of "clumh",  ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚€Â˜"down’, ‘feathers"’.

3. English: occupational name for a burner of charcoal or a gatherer of coal, Middle English coleman, from Old English col ‘(char)coal’ + mann ‘man’.

4. English: occupational name for the servant of a man named Cole.

5.Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of Kalman.

Americanized form of German Kohlmann or Kuhlmann.

www.familysearch.org  has these varied spellings: COLLMANN ; KOLLMANN; KOLEMAN ; COLMAN ; COLEMA ;COULMAN ; KOHLMAN; KOLMAN ;  COLSMAN ;KOLEMAINEN ; KOHLMANN ;.COLEMAINEN

     The name is found in various US states; England;  Australia ; Canada; Germany; South  Africa;  Belgium ; Ireland;  India; Wales; Barbados (Caribbean); Jamaica (Caribbean); Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua;  Costa Rica);  Switzerland;  Austria;  Netherlands; France; Russia USSR; Poland;  Denmark;  Finland; Mexico;  Norway; South America (Argentina; Peru; Uruguay; Chile;  Colombia; Paraguay;  Brazil) ; Italy; Spain; New Zealand; and Sweden.

The earliest listings  with a varied spelling were these:

(Colum) Colman  Birth/Christening: abt 0545, birthplace not stated.

Roger COLMAN

  Birth:   Abt 1524 ,Tiverton, Devon, England

Answer 5

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

Coleman Name Meaning and History

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.

hope this helps.

Answer 6

COLEMAN Name Meaning and History (from ancestry.com)

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.