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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish and Danish : ornamental or topographic name from alm ‘elm’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farmsteads in southeastern Norway named with alm ‘elm’.
  • North German : from a medieval personal name, a reduced form of the Germanic name Adalhelm ‘noble helmet’.

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