Origin: gossip, busybody, from Yente Telebende, comic strip gossip in 1920s-30s writing of Yiddish newspaper humorist B. Kovner (pen-name of Jacob ...
Alleman Name Meaning French: from Old French Aleman âGermanâ (Late Latin Alemannus, from a Germanic tribal name, probably meaning âall the menâ), hence a regional or ethnic name for a German-speaker in a predominantly French-speaking area.
Every-Name Index. Given Name Equivalents in French-Dutch-English. as used in translating the French names in Burton (1936, 1937). In the 1930s, Paul Gibson Burton wrote a series of six papers on the genealogy of Cornelis MELYN [MELIJN] that are the major reference for genealogists researching the MELYN surname in America.