Kálmán

Kalman (קלמן‎ in Yiddish and Hebrew, occasionally spelled Calman in Roman letters) is a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greeco-Jewish name Kalonymos (קלונימוס‎, meaning "beautiful name", a reference to a miracle worked in God's name). Sometimes the long form and short forms are used together, as in the compound name Kalman Kalonymos.

For other uses, see Kalman (disambiguation).

Kálmán is also an ancient Germanic origin Hungarian surname and male given name. Outside Hungary, the name occurs sometimes in the form Kalman. It was derived from the Germanic name: Koloman, Coloman or Kolman. The Germanic name Coloman has been used by Germans since the 9th century.

The Yiddish and Hungarian names are a convergence with separate origins (the Yiddish name first appearing in the Rhineland in the middle ages with the famed Kalonymos family).

People with the name Kalman or Kálmán include:

Surname
  • Attila Kalman (Hungarian: Kálmán Attila, born 1968), Hungarian, organist, pianist; (de)
  • Charles (Károly) Kálmán (1929–2015), Hungarian-Austrian Jewish composer; (de)
  • Dan Kalman (born 1952), American mathematician
  • Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), composer of operettas
  • Julie Kalman, Australian historian
  • Maira Kalman (born 1949), an Israeli-U.S. graphic designer and illustrator
  • Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), a Hungarian bass singer
  • Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016), Hungarian mathematician and electrical engineer
  • Tibor Kalman (1949–1999), Hungarian graphic designer

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