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Updated February 29, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near an elm tree or in an elm grove, from Middle English elm ‘elm’.
  • German : habitational name from any of the various places so named.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from älm(e) ‘elm grove’.

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