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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for an itinerant merchant, from Old French talemasche ‘knapsack’ (a word of uncertain origin).
  • Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Compare Talmage.

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