Germanized form of Polish Chelm ‘peak’, ‘hill’, a
topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a pointed
summit, or habitational name from a city in eastern Poland or any of
various other places named with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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