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The alm Surname

alm Name Meaning and History

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

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The alm name in History

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Distribution of alm Families in the US in 1920
Number of alm families
 32-61
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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