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malm Name Meaning and History

Swedish: arbitrary or ornamental name from Swedish malm ‘ore’, adopted in some cases by people connected with the copper-mining industry.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of malm Families in the US in 1920
Number of malm families
 25-48
 9-24
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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